Heavy snow blankets northeast China
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HEAVY snow hit northeast China yesterday, causing flight delays, and expressways and schools closed.
As of 5:30pm, all sections of expressway in northeast China’s Jilin Province were shut down, local authorities said.
The airport in Changchun, capital of Jilin, was closed. More than 100 inbound and outbound flights were delayed, and some 20 inbound flights have been diverted to other airports. Rescue workers have been dispatched to clean snow and ice from roads and at railway stations.
In Liaoning Province, several sections of 15 expressways were closed or began traffic control due to snow, according to the provincial transportation authorities.
Several bus stations also suspended service at several sections of road in Liaoning.
In Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang Province, the city’s education bureau ordered classes to be halted today and tomorrow for kindergartens, primary schools and middle schools in nine districts.
The Heilongjiang observatory issued an alert for heavy snow at 11am, forecasting that at least 6 millimeters of snow would fall in the cities of Daqing, Suihua, Yichun, Harbin and Mudanjiang until 2am today.
The National Meteorological Center issued a yellow alert for snowstorms for yesterday and today in northeast China, including Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning provinces. In the country’s four-tier color-coded weather warning system, red is the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
Some areas are expected to see blizzards.
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