China News Agency, Hulunbuir, April 29 (Reporter Zhang Wei) Woke up, houses, streets, and vehicles were covered with thick snow, and everything was white.
On the 29th, with only one week left before the Chinese Lixia solar term, the city of Erguna, Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ushered in a large-scale snowfall. The deepest part of the snow was over 20 cm, as if returning to winter overnight.
"There are still two or three days to enter May, but the spring in Ergun has not been able to enter the'state'. Cotton jackets and down jackets will be turned out to keep out the cold in three days." Shen Shichao, a citizen of Ergun. Wrapped in clothes, so said.
Ergun is located in the northwestern foothills of the Greater Khingan Mountains, at the northern end of the Hulunbuir Grassland, facing Russia across the Ergun River. It is the city with the highest latitude in Inner Mongolia and the northernmost border city in China.
In Weisumu, Mengwu room, Ergun, heavy snow lasted from 21:00 on the 28th to 6:30 in the morning on the 29th.
Wang Guosheng, a resident of Wei Sumu, said: "Last night, the snow was too big. This is the first time I have seen it in 10 years. The door of the house was blocked by snow in the morning and I couldn't open it anymore. "
The reporter learned from the Meteorological Department of Ergun that the snowfall process started at 21:11 on April 27, and changed from sleet to moderate snow. With the snowfall, the temperature dropped by 8℃～10 compared with the previous two days. ℃.
As of press time, the local accumulated precipitation reached 9.3 mm.
This snowfall not only gave the local beauty of "suddenly like a spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms", but also extremely beneficial to local spring planting production, and greatly relieved the local spring fire pressure.
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