A heavy fog will cover the sky over North China till a south-moving cold front drives it away on Friday, the Central Meteorological Station said yesterday.

 

Experts said the weather would remain foggy in most parts of North and Northeast China for the next two days.

 

Visibility will be less than 500 meters in Tianjin, in the central and southern parts of Hebei, northern Shandong, northern Henan and central Liaoning.

 

Fog has blanketed these areas since Monday, reducing visibility in some places to just 50 meters, meteorological offices said.

 

Cold air will strike North China and the northern part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in three days, bringing temperatures down by 4 to 8 degrees Celsius.

 

The temperature in the eastern part of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and other northern parts of China will drop by 10 to 12 degrees Celsius, according to weather forecasts.

 

Snow flurries or moderate snow is expected in northern Xinjiang, the far north and some parts of Northeast China.

 

(China Daily January 4, 2007)