Yesterday, police in Xi’an announced the arrest of a 33-year-old woman for rumor mongering. Her crime? Posting a video claiming that it was snowing in Xi’an, when in fact it was not. In a notice posted to WeChat, local police...
A CCTV report posted to Bilibili celebrating construction workers laboring in extreme heat came under severe criticism online this week. The report focused on workers in Xiong’an, Xi Jinping’s pet urban development...
According to the findings of an official investigation, bad weather was primarily to blame for the...
As the thermometer mercury hovers well above 100 °F (37 °C) in many southern and eastern Chinese cities for the fourth day in a row during a month-long heat wave, the China Meteorological Administration has issued a level-two...
A major hail storm has killed 17 people in Guangdong Province, BBC reports: The hailstorms, strong winds and rains fell over Guangdong province, next to Hong Kong, at the weekend. Provincial flood control officials told Xinhua...
Global Times describes the means by which the snowfall was enticed, as well as its side effects: Weather modification staff worked at 33 locations through the night. By 6 am Thursday, 759 silver iodide rods had been burned in...
The massive annual Spring Festival migration is underway in China, and is off to a rough start, MSNBC reports: Snow and freezing rain at airports in China’s eastern cities of Hangzhou and southwestern region of Chongqing...
Heavy snowfall in China has been wreaking havoc, already causing at least eight deaths and disrupting travel. From Bloomberg: Beijing’s heaviest snowfall in at least 54 years grounded hundreds of flights and trapped thousands of...
Reuters reports: Torrential rain battering southern China has forced more than 150,000 people from their homes, toppled hundreds of houses and punched a dangerous hole in the spillway of a dam, Xinhua news agency reported on...
China has done all it can do to control humans at the Games, now they have turned their attention to the weather. From The Advertiser, Adelaide now. Scientists are primed to launch rockets to stop it raining on the opening...
The Technology Review reports on how the Chinese plan to modify the weather in Beijing during the Olympics, using supercomputers and artillery. To prevent rain over the roofless 91,000-seat Olympic stadium that Beijing natives...
From BBC News: Unusually heavy snow has left at least 16 people dead and brought transport chaos to large areas of central and eastern China, state media said. Worst hit is Hubei province, where crops have been destroyed and roads blocked by the heaviest snow seen in the area for 16 years….[Full Text] – Read […]
From Xinhua News Agency: In the early hours of Saturday morning, it came fluttering down into the dry, grey city — Beijing is experiencing the first significant snow of the winter. The long overdue snow began to fall at around 2:40 a.m. and lasted into the afternoon. Traffic slowed and caused a number of road […]
From China Daily: China will encounter more bad weather next year, Qin Dahe, director of the Climate Meteorological Administration (CMA) said in his annual report yesterday. He urged all levels of government to improve weather monitoring. China will witness more severe weather conditions in 2007, the country’s top meteorological official forecast in his annual report […]
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