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Snowfall in Beijing
First precipitation in 106 days in China’s capital as drought threatens crucial wheat crops in country’s northeast.
First precipitation in 106 days in Beijing as drought threatens crucial wheat crops in the country(***)s northeast [GALLO/GETTY]
Published On 10 Feb 2011
10 Feb 2011
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Meteorologists say the latest snowfall, which began on Wednesday and continued through to Thursday, is the latest snowfall the year in 60 years [Reuters]
Two Chinese girl play in Tiananmen Square in the snow. The snow began falling late Wednesday over parched Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces [GALLO/GETTY]
Up to 3cm of snow fell in most places after authorities ordered weather- manipulation techniques such as cloud-seeding to induce the precipitation[Reuters]
The snow in the Beijing region was the first precipitation in the capital since rain fell on October 25 [Reuters]
A Chinese woman poses beside a snowman with Beijing(***)s Summer Palace in the background [GALLO/GETTY]
Children run along a street lined with trees in the falling snow outside the Forbidden City in Beijing [EPA]
Rabbit-shaped balloons for sale are seen at a frozen lake during the first snowfall of the year, the year of the Rabbit, at a park in Beijing [EPA]
A Chinese policeman in front of a LED screen in the Tiananmen Square [GALLO/GETTY]