Record Freeze Grips China
Winter is approaching, and a low-solar activity-induced ‘meridional’ jet stream flow is shifting with it, reverting from wave-7s to wave-4s, i.e. from ascending tropical warmth to descending polar cold
Exceptional chills have gripped much of China of late, most notably in Qinghai Province of the Tibetan Plateau.
Hala Lake took the ‘cold cherry’ over the weekend. The brackish lake, located in China’s Qilian mountains, bottomed-out at a record-breaking (for mid-Oct) -28.4C (-19.1F) on Sunday, October 15.
It wasn’t the only locale to post anomalous cold (see list below).
And note, many of these readings have gone down as new record lows for this early into a season.
Despite the media’s fixation on summertime heat, the majority of Asia has held exceptionally cold in 2023.
One late-April cold spell sent the mercury crashing to unprecedented levels in Northern China, when, on April 22, some 241 stations suffered their lowest-daily-maxes ever recorded (during the latter half of April).
Very rare April snow accompanied the cold, with many Chinese towns and cities posting their latest accumulating snow since records began. Shanxi, for example, received 24cm (9.4 inches) in late April — a new record for both monthly-depth and lateness.
The cold and the snowfall “arrived suddenly,” so said the locals.
A farmer in Taiyuan, Shanxi said that snowfall caught him completely off guard: “Now the fruit trees are covered with snow, the temperature is too low. If the flowers are frozen over time, they won’t bear fruit later,” he was quoted as saying.
The following month, May, was another colder-than-average one for all of China.
Looking back to last winter (2022-23), historic benchmarks were busted throughout the month of January, too, and not just in China.
While Mohe City’s -53C (-63.4F) stole the headlines (the coldest reading ever recorded by the Chinese meteorological system), all-time national lows were slain across Asia, from Pakistan to Japan.
Even China itself posted a host of additional cold records that largely slipped though the net, including Beijicun’s first ever -50C (-50.3C on Jan 22).
As per China’s energy policy, Beijing clearly aren’t buying the ‘carbon dioxide – end of times’ correlation.
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i live and work in China (north part of JiangSu) and this year was not so crazy cold but also summer was not so hot (one month i went back home so i can’t say all the time was like this). also now is still surprisingly warm, all the way up to 27C during the day. but this winter should be colder and longer as also spring festival falls in beginning of February, which is relatively late….
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