(Corrects headline to specify first Beijing snowfall)
BEIJING (Reuters) – The China Meterological Administration issued a blizzard warning for Sunday saying important snowfall is predicted in giant elements of northern China together with Beijing, the capital and present website of the Winter Olympics.
The weekend snowfall, which had already begun in some areas on Saturday, is the capital’s first because the Winter Olympics opened on Feb. 4, authorities notices confirmed.
The Girls’s Freeski slopestyle qualification in Zhangjiakou, that includes Group China gold medalist Eileen Gu, was rescheduled to in a while Sunday because of the snow, a discover on the Beijing 2022 official Olympic web site mentioned.
The authorities issued a blue blizzard warning, the bottom of the nation’s four-tiered alerts, with some areas forecast to obtain as much as 4 cm (1.6 inches) of snow. They suggested the general public to chop again on pointless outside actions.
“It’s anticipated that there might be heavy snow in elements of central and southern Inside Mongolia, northern Shanxi, central and northern Hebei, northern Beijing, southern Tianjin, japanese and southern Liaoning, and Xinjiang alongside the Tianshan Mountains at this time,” the China Meterological Administration discover mentioned.
Beijing temperatures dropped, with the Beijing Meteorological Observatory forecasting a minimal temperature of -6 levels Celsius (21°F). (This story corrects headline to specify first Beijing snowfall)
(Reporting by Martin Quin Pollard and Albee Zhang; Enhancing by Edmund Klamann)
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