Cold snap to blanket Beijing in more snow

It is time to schedule that friendly snowball fight in your neighborhood.

A traffic policeman guides traffic in heavy fog in Huai'an, East  China's Jiangsu province, yesterday. [He Jinghua/China Daily]

A mighty cold front is expected to drop temperatures by as much as 14 C in some parts of northern China in the next three days, according to the National Meteorological Center yesterday.

Southern China may see rain for the next three days, while torrential rain will hit regions of middle and eastern China.

The meteorological center also issued a cold-snap warning in Beijing and predicted that the nation's capital could see snow through Wednesday, making this the longest run of snowfall so far this year.

The center said a mixture of rain and snow was likely in Beijing on Sunday night. The temperature could drop to -6 C on Thursday morning, it reported.

The cold warning came after days of thick fog in northern and eastern parts of China.

Poor weather conditions yesterday in Beijing grounded the aerial show and skydiving exhibition of the People's Liberation Army air force. It had been scheduled at 10 am to celebrate the air force's 60th anniversary.

Nearly all highways near the capital were closed for more than 10 hours due to poor visibility during the weekend.