Real snow in Beijing (No, I was wrong)

10Nov/09Off

Real snow in Beijing (No, I was wrong)

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More snow in Beijing today. But this time it's been Mother Nature's doing, according to local media reports. Over at my college, the snowfall has reached around 6 inches high.

While heading to class this morning, I saw that most students had abandoned their bikes and had to instead slog through the snow. Meanwhile, I proudly grinned at everyone as I rode my bike on the slushy roads without much incident.

Beijing has had some weird weather lately. Aside from the man-made snow that came earlier this month, last weekend it was 70 degrees, hot enough so that I could happily play basketball. But now we're back to winter again. Maybe the Chinese government can fix this; rather than make it snow, why not give us more sunny days? This makes me envision a future where the weather is determined by popular opinion. I vote for more clear skies.

I'm not always a big fan of snow; we had way too much of it when I was in college at Michigan. But at the very least I can enjoy the cool snowmen on campus.

UPDATE-- Turns out I heard wrong. According to some recent reports the snow was man-made once again.

This time around, the snow storm was accompanied by some spectacular thunder and lightning. While children enjoyed another day of snowball fights and snowman-building, many others in the capital were left grumbling.

“Without advance notice, the weather manipulation led to another big mess yesterday in Beijing, with traffic and flight delays,” the China Daily reports .

Perhaps there is no such thing as real snow in Beijing.