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Those temperatures and dewpoints are low enough for it to stick as well, even if it was light.
If it's real, it has put paid to one of my reasons for thinking it one of the worst climates in the world (consistently chilly winters but never snows).
Those temperatures and dewpoints are low enough for it to stick as well, even if it was light.
If it's real, it has put paid to one of my reasons for thinking it one of the worst climates in the world (consistently chilly winters but never snows).
It snowed in Chongqing. However Chongqing is not only a city, but also a huge munipalicity twice as big as Switzerland. Some mountains there have heavy snow every year. There was definitely no snow accumulation in downtown area.
It snowed in Chongqing. However Chongqing is not only a city, but also a huge munipalicity twice as big as Switzerland. Some mountains there have heavy snow every year. There was definitely no snow accumulation in downtown area.
Those airport observations seem to be accurate, they show conditions that would produce accumulating snow, and the airport is apparently only 12 miles from the centre (closer than Heathrow to central London). You have to say it's impressive for 29 degrees north. Maybe, just once in a few blue moons, Chongqing can get something other than cloud and 10C temps in midwinter...
Now to try and find pictures of sunshine in winter there.....
Those airport observations seem to be accurate, they show conditions that would produce accumulating snow, and the airport is apparently only 12 miles from the centre (closer than Heathrow to central London). You have to say it's impressive for 29 degrees north. Maybe, just once in a few blue moons, Chongqing can get something other than cloud and 10C temps in midwinter...
Now to try and find pictures of sunshine in winter there.....
I wouldn't call a little snow on leaves an "accumulation".
I think in China they actually have an official definition for snow accumulation. The depth needs to be over 0.5cm on grass covered ground or something.
Pictures 5,6,9,and 10 show accumulated snow by any reasonable definition. If you look at the observations, it shows the snow started just before dawn (having initially been mixed with rain) but then carried on all through the day and into the following night. As it was light snow it would have taken time to accumulate.
Pic 10 is clearly taken as it was starting to get dark (about 6.30 pm); snow had been falling for over 12 hours then. Whereas some of the other ones (2,3,4) were taken earlier in the day, when it had only produced a slight dusting.
Pictures 5,6,9,and 10 show accumulated snow by any reasonable definition. If you look at the observations, it shows the snow started just before dawn (having initially been mixed with rain) but then carried on all through the day and into the following night. As it was light snow it would have taken time to accumulate.
Pic 10 is clearly taken as it was starting to get dark (about 6.30 pm); snow had been falling for over 12 hours then. Whereas some of the other ones (2,3,4) were taken earlier in the day, when it had only produced a slight dusting.
It's hard to tell whether they are really in "downtown". Some look like on the hills. It'll be more convincing if the photos have skyscrapers, which downtown Chongqing has a lot.
OK I did some research. This Chinese website says urban Chongqing had snow accumulations 6 times since 1951: 1956、1958、1972、1977、1982 and 1991. In 2016 there was snow but no accumulation in urban area.
The record depth of snow accumulation is 3cm. 2016?1?????????? - ???? -?????
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