China News Service, Daxinganling, August 4 (Feng Hongwei, reporter Jiang Hui) It is now the hottest, humid, and sweltering "dog days" of the year. It is located in Huzhong, the "coldest town in China" in the Greater Xing'an Mountains region of Heilongjiang Province. The lowest temperature dropped to 6.6°C, bringing coolness to tourists and local residents.
Huzhong District is located in the northern foothills of Yilahuli Mountain in the Greater Khingan Mountains, with an average elevation of more than 800 meters. The frost-free period is only more than 80 days. The lowest historical temperature is -53.2℃, the annual average temperature is -4.3℃, and the weather at -40℃ can reach 30 days per year. Around it, it is known as "China's coldest town".
Street vendors wear cotton clothes to sell vegetables.
Photo by Feng Hongwei
At 7 o'clock on the 4th, there was a constant flow of people in the Jiangong small market in Huzhong Town, Huzhong District, Daxinganling. The vendors selling vegetables had already walked out of their homes to the market stalls at 3 o'clock in the morning. Some of the vendors were wearing fleece and hats, and some Wearing long-sleeved clothes wrapped in cotton clothes, local residents buying vegetables also wear thick coats.
Chen Shuxia, a vendor who sells vegetables at the morning stall, said: “It feels very cold at the morning stall these days. Those of us who go out of the stall are all wearing cotton clothes. The colder it gets."
Grocery residents are wrapped in fleece.
Photo by Feng Hongwei
The reporter learned from the Huzhong District Meteorological Department that the temperature in Huzhong District has dropped recently, with the lowest temperature lower than 10°C. At 2:22 on the 3rd, the lowest temperature measured by the automatic weather station at the foot of the mountain in Baishan District, Huzhong District was 6.6°C.
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