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On January 6, a tourist wearing a white bear-shaped hat visited the Forbidden City in Beijing.
The Chinese capital Beijing ushered in the coldest morning in half a century on Thursday (January 7), with the lowest temperature reaching minus 19.6 degrees Celsius.
Although there is still a large gap between Ulaanbaatar (Ulaanbaatar) in Mongolia and Nur-Sultan (Nur-Sultan) in Kazakhstan, which is recognized as the coldest capital in the world, this low temperature has surpassed that of Moscow. ) Or the temperature of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland.
The rare low temperature makes many people who need to travel “wince.” Chinese media “Caixin.com” reported that some residents bought duct tape to block windows and prevent cold wind from entering the room, and pedestrians had to walk backwards to avoid the approaching wind.
The low temperature also makes it difficult for people who are used to ordering food online. In many places in Beijing, due to the decline in the number of passengers providing take-out services, many people have encountered “unmanned orders”.
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China is about to usher in the Spring Festival. A worker hangs a lantern near Shichahai in Beijing.
Even the monkeys at the Beijing Zoo looked unbearable. A video taken by tourists showed a group of monkeys hugging on the mountain to keep warm.
State media cited data from the Beijing Meteorological Office as saying that at 5:56 a.m. on Thursday, the weather station of the representative observatory in Beijing monitored a minimum temperature of minus 19.6 ° C, which is the lowest temperature in winter since 1966. .
The day before, the temperature in Beijing dropped to minus 17.1 ° C, breaking the local record for the lowest temperature since the 21st century.
“I am not afraid of being cold, I am afraid of the wind,” a pedestrian in Beijing told the BBC. “I saw that the body temperature displayed on the mobile phone is about 20 degrees below zero, and going out is the same as a knife.”
Due to the onset of the cold snap, China’s railway departments adopted temporary speed limit measures for high-speed rail lines from Beijing to Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin and other cities, causing some trains to be delayed.
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The severe cold has not deterred Beijing’s winter swimming enthusiasts, and there are still people swimming in the partially frozen river.
However, due to the dry weather in Beijing in winter, there has been almost no rainfall in this winter for almost a month, so no white snow can be seen on the streets and it has not caused a serious impact on traffic.
Beijing is not the only Chinese city affected by the cold current. In the economic center of Shanghai, the lowest temperature in the main urban area of Xujiahui on Friday (January 8) was minus 5.9 ° C, a record low in 2000. Other major cities in north and southeast China also experienced significant cooling.
The website of the China Meteorological Administration explained that the main cause of the cold current was the weakening of the Arctic high-altitude jet, and the polar vortex, which was carrying a large number of cold polar air masses, headed towards the south and cold air invaded China to the end.
“The coldest winter”
The “coldest” winter isn’t just in China. In Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, the highest temperature on New Year’s Day was minus 8.9 ° C, the record coldest on the same day in 144 years.
According to local media Hokkaido Culture Broadcasting (UHB), due to record low temperatures, many water pipes in Sapporo have frozen. More than 1,400 related inquiries were received in a few days.
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On the streets of Beijing, pedestrians don thick down jackets.
Seoul, South Korea, also experienced a rare low temperature. According to data from the Korea Meteorological Agency, this week’s cold current reduced the temperature in the capital to minus 18.6 degrees Celsius, which is the lowest temperature in the region since 1986 and the second-lowest temperature on record.
According to the “Washington Post” report, after the polar vortex moves away from the North Pole, the weather in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere will face major changes this winter, including the United States and Europe. Northern Europe may face a severe cold snap.
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