[Commentary] April 19 is Gu Yu, one of the traditional Chinese solar terms. Affected by the cold air, on the 19th, Heihe City, a Chinese border town, began to experience large-scale rain and snow weather, and the temperature dropped by 17 degrees in a "cliff style". This cold air not only brought rain and snow, but also accompanied by northerly winds of 4-6.

  [Commentary] On April 20, the reporter saw in the Heihe River that the sky was suddenly falling by 17 degrees overnight. The citizens just changed into their spring clothes and enjoyed the fine weather for a few days. The citizens put on their winter clothes again today. Footsteps in a hurry.

  [Same period] Heihe citizen Cui Jianhua

  The temperature of Heihe reached 20 degrees a few days ago. There are half-sleeves in this street. Now it was suddenly snowing again. Seeing that I put on my cotton clothes, the road was slippery.

  [Same period] Heihe citizen Duo Junmin

  I went out this morning and saw such heavy snow, from several years to April. There was no heavy snowfall before. The weather suddenly became colder, so we all put on cotton clothes and started to clear the snow outside.

  [Commentary] On April 20, the Heihe Meteorological Observatory issued a blizzard warning signal and changed it to a blizzard yellow warning signal. At present, most of the city has obvious snowfall weather. It is expected that the snowfall will reach more than 6 mm in the next 12 hours, and the snowfall will continue. Heihe City issued a yellow warning signal for road icing at 16:30 on the 19th, and the Traffic Police Division of the Heihe City Public Security Bureau quickly launched an emergency plan for bad weather.

  [Same period] Cui Zhiqiang, the policeman of Heihe Public Security Traffic Police Division

  In response to the precipitation process, the city's public security traffic police simultaneously launched a severe weather emergency plan, further strengthened police investment in urban areas, strengthened command and guidance, and implemented grid management to ensure smooth traffic and ensure pedestrian safety. With regard to highways, the public security traffic control department has implemented temporary traffic control on the Jihe Expressway and the main highways in our city to ensure that the safety situation on the highways is continuously controllable and stable.

  Reporter Wei Lai Heilongjiang Heihe reports

Editor in charge: [Wang Kai]