A cold front is expected to bring strong wind and snow to northern China and rain to the south in the next two days, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) announced in Beijing on Saturday.

Shenyang, capital city of Liaoning Province, was hit by heavy snow on December 27, 2008.

The northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia provinces, Inner Mongolia, as well as southwestern Tibet and the Sichuan Province are expected to get between 5-10 millimeters of snow Saturday night and Sunday, according to the NMC forecast.

Temperatures are also supposed to drop 4-10 degrees Celsius.

The national weather forecast also predicted rain for most of southern China over the weekend. Guangxi Province will see large amounts of rain December 28.

Fog and haze will cover southwestern Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan provinces as well as Chongqing municipality from Saturday night to Sunday Morning.

NMC warned drivers to mind traffic as visibility in some of these regions could be less than 200 meters.

Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong Province, has its first rainfall since winter this year.