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[[Mongolia]]'s [[snowstorms]] of December 2009 also killed 2,000 cattel and 2 people. The worst was between December 21 and January 3.
[[Mongolia]]'s [[snowstorms]] of December 2009 also killed 2,000 cattel and 2 people. The worst was between December 21 and January 3.


====December 21–January 4 (East Asia)====
====December 22nd–January 10th (East Asia)====
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A blanket of heavy snow fell upon large parts of [[Japan]] and [[South Korea]], causing the deaths of about 10 Japanese and 3 South Korean people on the 22nd. The storm also brought chaos to roads and airports in both countries <ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2005/12/22/japansnow051222.html]</ref>. [[North Korea]], was probably affected to, but no reports were forthcoming.
[[Mongolia]]'a [[snowstorms]] of late December 2009 also killed 2,000 cattle and 2 people. The worst was between December 21st and January 3rd.


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Japan’s north western prefecture of [[Niigata]] saw snow piled as high as 184 centimetres in places and 650,000 homes and businesses in the [[prefecture]] were with out [[electricity]] at one point and most [[train]]s in the prefecture were halted temporarily due to the [[power outage]] on the 22nd and 23rd. The [[black out]] also affected about 1,000 [[traffic lights]] went out in [[Niigata city]]. The western prefecture of [[Fukui]] had two of it’s [[nuclear power]] plants automatically shut down due to technical problems caused by the unusually heavy snowfalls. South Korea deployed several thousand troops to clear highways and remove snow from the roofs of weak [[buildings]] after severe damage was reported on the south coastal, after up to a metre of by then unmelted [[snow]] had fallen in two previous weeks. More snow was expected in both countries coming days.
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A blanket of heavy snow fell upon large parts of [[Japan]] and [[South Korea]], causing the deaths of about 10 Japanese and 3 South Korean people. The storm also brought chaos to roads and airports in both countries <ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2005/12/22/japansnow051222.html]</ref>. [[North Korea]], was probably affected to, but no reports were forthcoming.


Between January 1 and 2, 2010, 50- and 70-year record low temperatures and snowfall hit northern [[China]] and [[Korea]] starting 1 January<ref name="China1"/>.
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Japan’s north western prefecture of [[Niigata]] saw snow piled as high as 184 centimetres in places and 650,000 homes and businesses in the [[prefecture]] were with out electricity at one point and most trains in the prefecture were halted temporarily due to the [[power outage]] on January the 4th. The [[black out]] also affected about 1,000 [[traffic lights]] went out in Niigata city. The western prefecture of [[Fukui]] had two of it’s [[nuclear power plant]]s automatically shut down due to technical problems caused by the unusually heavy snowfalls. South Korea deployed several thousand troops to clear highways and remove snow from the roofs of weak [[buildings]] after severe damage was reported on the south coastal, after up to a metre of by then unmelted [[snow]] had fallen in two previous weeks. More snow was expected in both countries coming days.

Heavy snow fell in northern China grounded hundreds of flights on the 4th. It and forced [[Hong Kong]]’s [[Financial Secretary]] [[John Tsang]] and [[Monetary Authority Chief Executive Officer]] [[Norman Chan]] to cancel a trip to [[Beijing]]<ref>[http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-03/heavy-snow-hits-chinese-capital-115-flights-canceled-update1-.html]</ref>. [[Beijing]] was hit by a blizzard starting the evening of the 2nd, with 70-80% of flights cancelled out of [[Beijing Capital International Airport]], on January the 4th.<ref name="China1"/>, and close to 20&nbsp;cm of snow fell in the north of the city, and close to 25&nbsp;cm in Seoul.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_473375.html|title=Icy cold snap hits Beijing|last=Breaking News|first=Reuters|date=January 4, 2010|work=Reuters|publisher=The Straits Times|accessdate=10 January 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_473504.html|title=Big chill grips Asia|last=Breaking News|first=Reuters|date=January 4, 2010|work=Reuters|publisher=The Straits Times|accessdate=9 January 2010}}</ref> Schools across the area were closed, and [[Premier Wen]] asked local governments to ensure safe transportation, continued food supplies, and continued agricultural production.<ref name="China1">{{cite news |title=Snowstorms Force Hong Kong’s Tsang, Chan to Cancel Beijing Trip |author=Tian Ying |newspaper=BusinessWeek |date=January 4, 2010 |url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-03/heavy-snow-hits-chinese-capital-115-flights-canceled-update1-.html |accessdate=January 6, 2009}}</ref> Continued snowstorms were forecast for the city of [[Beijing]] and the province of [[Inner Mongolia]]. It was also predicted on January 7 for snow to reach the provinces of [[Jiangsu]], [[Anhui]], [[Henan]] and [[Hubei]] on January 9 according to [[China National Radio]].<ref name="Martin">{{cite news|url=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=avRatOmGvB1o|title=Icy Weather Boosts Power Demand, Slows Coal Shipments|last=Martin|first=Christopher|coauthors=Whitney McFerron|date=January 7, 2009|publisher=Bloomberg.com|accessdate=10 January 2010}}</ref> One person was killed in [[Xinjiang Autonomous Region]] as a result of the storm.<ref name="News">{{cite news|url=http://www.weather.com.cn/static/html/article/20100110/177506.shtml|title=新疆发生雪灾5000余人转移 1人死亡|last=News|first=Weather China|date=January 10, 2010|work=weather.com.cn|publisher=The Public Weather Service Center of CMA|language=Chinese|accessdate=10 January 2010}}</ref>. Emergency servaces hadnded out extra cattel [[fodder]] in Tibet.

[[Japan]]'s [[Hokkaido]] island was hit by heavyer snowfall, causing heavy travel disruption and some airport closures.



Light snow briefly fell in the [[Lebanon]], [[Israel]] and [[Palestine]] and ferther snow was reported in [[Niigata]], [[Japan]].

On the Monday, many motorways in Shandong were closed and 19 flights cancelled in the [[Yantai International Airport]]. Eventually the [[No. 1820 train (China)|No. 1820 train]], carrying more than 800 passengers, started off at after being stranded for 12 hours, they said.

January 4 saw [[Seoul]]’s worst snow fall since [[1937]] according to the [[Korea Meteorological Administration]] (KMA). The blizzard dumped 25.8&nbsp;cm of snow on the town <ref>[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/04/content_12752746.htm]</ref>.

Avalanches and heavy snow hit the Russian's [[Sakhalin Island]], which was smothered by a snow cyclone and blizzard, the Island’s emergency officials said.<ref>[http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/166271375]</ref>

Civil authorities were put on a major alert in the snow torn province of [[Shandong]] <ref>[http://english.sina.com/china/p/2010/0104/297504.html]</ref> on January 4 as more snow fell in both Shandong and [[Beijing]]. Travel is affected as Snowstorm Paralyzes Beijing on January 4, 2010 <ref>[http://www.nowpublic.com/world/beijing-snowstorm-paralyzes-chinese-capital-travel-affected]</ref>.

January the 5th, saw a saw smooth flow of traffic, with no [[gridlock]] or serious traffic accidents being reported<ref name="en.ce.cn">[http://en.ce.cn/National/Local/201001/05/t20100105_20745268.shtml]</ref> after the snow storm that caused traffic chaos on the 4th. and , according to the [[Beijing Traffic Management Bureau]]<ref name="en.ce.cn"/>. The city's bus [[subway train]] services were up and running according as plan<ref name="en.ce.cn"/>. During the peak hours on Monday morning, the [[Beijing Subway Operating Company]] dispatched 20 additional trains to ease the heavy passenger flow<ref name="en.ce.cn"/>. The bus of all routes started off on time that morning, according to the [[Beijing Public Transport Holdings]]<ref name="en.ce.cn"/>. [[Inner Mongolia]] was still in a critical situation as teams batteled to clear severe rural snow drifts.

4-8&nbsp;inches (10-20 centimeters) of snow fell in Beijing on the 5th, in the largest snowfall since 1951, on January 5, 2010 <ref>[http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0105-hance_extreme.html]</ref>.

The 2,000 weather modification offices in China, which are responsible for bombing the skies with silver iodide to induce rain or snow will be put in to use.<ref name="smh.com.au">[http://www.smh.com.au/environment/china-blames-freak-storm-on-global-warming-20100104-lq6t.html]</ref> Schools in [[Beijing]] and [[Tianjin]] closed and because the cities’ traffic was in chaos on the 6th. The capital received its biggest snow fall since [[1951]], then immediately followed by the harshest Siberian winds in decades.<ref name="smh.com.au"/> Temperatures for the 5th were forecast to plunge to -16c., a 40-year low, after a day-time maximum of -8c.<ref name="smh.com.au"/> The head of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, [[Guo Hu]], linked the blizzard-like conditions this week to unusual atmospheric patterns caused by global warming.
<ref name="smh.com.au"/>

Heavy snow started to fall in [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]]<ref>[http://english.cctv.com/20100105/101447.shtml]</ref> and it was reported that a leading [[North Korean]] [[Communist]] party official had frozen to death, in his home, situated in the country's [[Sepo]] [[kun]] (or county).

During the peak hours of Monday morning, the Beijing Subway Operating Company dispatched 20 additional subway trains to ease the heavy passenger flow. City workers were deployed to clean the snow in the city's main roads with about 15,710 tonnes of snow-dissolving agent, [[Beijing Environmental Sanitation Group Co., Ltd.]] official [[Zhang Zhiqiang]] said<ref>[http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6859327.html]</ref>.On the Monday, many motorways in Shandong were closed and 19 flights cancelled in the [[Yantai International Airport]].

In [[Inner Mongolia]], 13 trains were delayed that Monday in [[Hohhot]], the regional capital, said the [[Hohhot railway]] authorities. Eventually the [[No. 1820 train (China)|No. 1820 train]], carrying more than 800 passengers, started off at after being stranded for 12 hours, they said.

January 6 saw [[Seoul]]’s worst snow fall since [[1937]] according to the [[Korea Meteorological Administration]] (KMA). The blizzard dumped 25.8&nbsp;cm of snow on the town <ref>[[
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/04/content_12752746.htm]]</ref>.

Continued snowstorms were forecast for the city of [[Beijing]] and the province of [[Inner Mongolia]]. [[Electricity]] rationing started on January 7 <ref>[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=avRatOmGvB1o]</ref>. Snow had started falling in [[Gangsu]] province by January 7. It also was projected on January 7 to have reached the provinces of [[Jiangsu]], [[Anhui]], [[Henan]] and [[Hubei]] on January 9 according to [[China National Radio]] <ref>[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=avRatOmGvB1o].</ref>
The Chinese government said that China faced its worst ice risk in 30 years <ref>[http://www.einnews.com/login.php?redir=%2Fnews.php%3Fwid%3D270821333&n=1]</ref>. By the night of January 8–9, the major snow storms predicted on January 7 for the provinces of [[Jiangsu]] and [[Anhui]], had arrived and the emergency services were put on alert.

Continued snowstorms are forecast for the city of [[Beijing]] and the province of [[Inner Mongolia]]. Snow reached the provinces of [[Jiangsu]], [[Anhui]], [[Henan]] and [[Hubei]] on January 9.<ref name="Martin"/> One person was killed in [[Xinjiang Autonomous Region]] as a result of the storm.<ref name="News"/>

On January 10, 1 person died and 5,435 were evacuated after snowstorm in [[Xinjiang]] Uygur Autonomous Region on January 10 according to the [[Ministry of Civil Affairs]]. A total of 261,800 people in 12 counties or cities were affected by the blizzards <ref>[http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/10/content_9293681.htm]</ref>.

25 Nepalese people, mostly children, died as a blizzard swept over most of [[Nepal]] on January 7<ref name="news.xinhuanet.com">[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/07/content_12767369.htm]</ref><ref name="news.xinhuanet.com"/><ref>[http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/08/content_12774807.htm]</ref>. Snow storms were also probably in mountainus [[Bhutan]] and [[Sikkim]], but no reports were forth coming.


====December 22–January 5 (Russian Far East and Alaska)====
====December 22–January 5 (Russian Far East and Alaska)====

Revision as of 05:24, 2 February 2010


  • The south of the region covered by this article's cold wave
    The south of the region covered by this article's cold wave
  • The north of the region covered by this article's cold wave
    The north of the region covered by this article's cold wave

The East Asian snowstorms of 2009-2010 profiles the heavy Mongolian, Mainland Chinese (the P.R.C.), Nepalese, Korean peninsula, Japanese, Kuril Islands, Sea of Okhotsk, Primorsky and Sakhalin Island winter storms, including blizzards, ice storms, and other winter events, from 8 May 2009, to 28 February 2010.

A winter storm is an event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow, hail or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form (i.e. freezing rain).

The list of events

Very cold and/or snowy weather was reported across the Northern Hemisphere, with many severe cases being reported in the USA, Canada, the UK, Poland, Finland, Russia, India, South Korea, China and Japan.

As this occurred, unusually heavy rain hit Brazil, southern Bangladesh, Italy and Argentina. A heat wave and unforeseen monsoon weather also hit Australia.[1] Guam was hit by a typhoon on December 29, 2009[2].

2009

May 8th

21 people had died in a rural Mongolian blizzard.[3]

June 2nd

Another 15 people and 10,000 head of cattle had died by this date in Mongolia.

October 12th

On the 12th of October 2009, Just over 200 herdsmen and 1,000 heads of livestock had been stranded by heavy snowfalls in Ali prefecture in Tibet, The week-long snowfall had accumulated to about 30 centimetres in Pulan County of Ali.[4], with some areas reaching 1 meter depth, according to Xing Xiuyin, head of an armed police detachment stationed in the Tibetan region. 30 soldiers and two snow-clearing machines were sent on the way to Ali, according to Xing Xiuyin.[4] Thousands of people were trapped as heavy snow fell in Tibet's Lhunze County, but rescue services managed to minimize the casualties and housing losses. The rescue services also managed to provide shelter and emergency fodder for 200 head of cattel.

October 13th

Snow was reported by Chinese authorities to be falling in Qinghai and Heilongjiang Provinces.

October 31 (Primorsky Krai, Russia)

Heavy snowfall hit Russia's Primorsky Territory on October 31, as the cold wind storm moved from the Sea of Okhotsk [5] to the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, bringing heavy snow and rain to the region that meteorologists expected to last another 24 hours. They also warned of temperatures wpuld fall by up to 15 degrees [5] and that weather conditions could make traveling difficult as snowfall in the Vladivostok area had already significantly impeded travel by larger vehicles. The city administration's official Yevgeny Kolpinets told the Russian news agency Itar-Tass the inclement weather had stopped bus traffic in the city, but luckily no energy supply service problems had been reported [5]

November 9 (China)

The Harbin Snow Festival [6] [7] [8] took place in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, admits unusually heavy snow. The festival was first started in 1985 [9] and had never seen such heavy snow fall since it's foundation. Harbin is China's 10th biggest city with a population of about 4,500,000,[10] so planned electricity rationing would hit this usually busy city badly, as would the planned rationing in Beijing. During thee worst snow storms since 1949 have claimed 40 lives in, destroyed thousands of buildings and killerd almost 500,000 acres (202,343 ha) (200,000 hectares) of winter crops, according to the Civil Affairs Ministry. The snowfall is the heaviest in the provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong and Henan since the establishment of the Communist state in 1949.[11]

November 13 (China)

Heavy snowfall in China caused school building collapses and the death of 38 people.[12]

November 25 – December 2 (Primorsky, Russia.)

On November 25, the cold cyclone came to Russia's Primorsky Territory from the Yellow Sea. Weather forecasters correctly predicted both snow, gale-strength wind and a temperature would be 0 to -2°C, with one night's temperature drop to -25 °С. Over the next week the day temperature was predicted to be between 2 degrees above zero to 10 degrees below zero, with a night time temperature of between -24 and -25 °C. The wind speed was expected to be between 0 and 11 meters per second.[13] Both Ice and avalanche warnings were issued as a week (to December 2) heavy snow was predicted for both Primorsky Krai and Amur Krai, but significantly less than expected actually occurred over the week and it finally cleared up on 30 November, rather than on December 2.

Decmber 21st - January 3rd (Mongolia)

Mongolia's snowstorms of December 2009 also killed 2,000 cattel and 2 people. The worst was between December 21 and January 3.

December 22nd–January 10th (East Asia)

A blanket of heavy snow fell upon large parts of Japan and South Korea, causing the deaths of about 10 Japanese and 3 South Korean people on the 22nd. The storm also brought chaos to roads and airports in both countries [14]. North Korea, was probably affected to, but no reports were forthcoming.

Japan’s north western prefecture of Niigata saw snow piled as high as 184 centimetres in places and 650,000 homes and businesses in the prefecture were with out electricity at one point and most trains in the prefecture were halted temporarily due to the power outage on the 22nd and 23rd. The black out also affected about 1,000 traffic lights went out in Niigata city. The western prefecture of Fukui had two of it’s nuclear power plants automatically shut down due to technical problems caused by the unusually heavy snowfalls. South Korea deployed several thousand troops to clear highways and remove snow from the roofs of weak buildings after severe damage was reported on the south coastal, after up to a metre of by then unmelted snow had fallen in two previous weeks. More snow was expected in both countries coming days.

Between January 1 and 2, 2010, 50- and 70-year record low temperatures and snowfall hit northern China and Korea starting 1 January[15].

Heavy snow fell in northern China grounded hundreds of flights on the 4th. It and forced Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary John Tsang and Monetary Authority Chief Executive Officer Norman Chan to cancel a trip to Beijing[16]. Beijing was hit by a blizzard starting the evening of the 2nd, with 70-80% of flights cancelled out of Beijing Capital International Airport, on January the 4th.[15], and close to 20 cm of snow fell in the north of the city, and close to 25 cm in Seoul.[17][18] Schools across the area were closed, and Premier Wen asked local governments to ensure safe transportation, continued food supplies, and continued agricultural production.[15] Continued snowstorms were forecast for the city of Beijing and the province of Inner Mongolia. It was also predicted on January 7 for snow to reach the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Hubei on January 9 according to China National Radio.[19] One person was killed in Xinjiang Autonomous Region as a result of the storm.[20]. Emergency servaces hadnded out extra cattel fodder in Tibet.

Japan's Hokkaido island was hit by heavyer snowfall, causing heavy travel disruption and some airport closures.


Light snow briefly fell in the Lebanon, Israel and Palestine and ferther snow was reported in Niigata, Japan.

On the Monday, many motorways in Shandong were closed and 19 flights cancelled in the Yantai International Airport. Eventually the No. 1820 train, carrying more than 800 passengers, started off at after being stranded for 12 hours, they said.

January 4 saw Seoul’s worst snow fall since 1937 according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). The blizzard dumped 25.8 cm of snow on the town [21].

Avalanches and heavy snow hit the Russian's Sakhalin Island, which was smothered by a snow cyclone and blizzard, the Island’s emergency officials said.[22]

Civil authorities were put on a major alert in the snow torn province of Shandong [23] on January 4 as more snow fell in both Shandong and Beijing. Travel is affected as Snowstorm Paralyzes Beijing on January 4, 2010 [24].

January the 5th, saw a saw smooth flow of traffic, with no gridlock or serious traffic accidents being reported[25] after the snow storm that caused traffic chaos on the 4th. and , according to the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau[25]. The city's bus subway train services were up and running according as plan[25]. During the peak hours on Monday morning, the Beijing Subway Operating Company dispatched 20 additional trains to ease the heavy passenger flow[25]. The bus of all routes started off on time that morning, according to the Beijing Public Transport Holdings[25]. Inner Mongolia was still in a critical situation as teams batteled to clear severe rural snow drifts.

4-8 inches (10-20 centimeters) of snow fell in Beijing on the 5th, in the largest snowfall since 1951, on January 5, 2010 [26].

The 2,000 weather modification offices in China, which are responsible for bombing the skies with silver iodide to induce rain or snow will be put in to use.[27] Schools in Beijing and Tianjin closed and because the cities’ traffic was in chaos on the 6th. The capital received its biggest snow fall since 1951, then immediately followed by the harshest Siberian winds in decades.[27] Temperatures for the 5th were forecast to plunge to -16c., a 40-year low, after a day-time maximum of -8c.[27] The head of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, Guo Hu, linked the blizzard-like conditions this week to unusual atmospheric patterns caused by global warming. [27]

Heavy snow started to fall in Seoul, South Korea[28] and it was reported that a leading North Korean Communist party official had frozen to death, in his home, situated in the country's Sepo kun (or county).

During the peak hours of Monday morning, the Beijing Subway Operating Company dispatched 20 additional subway trains to ease the heavy passenger flow. City workers were deployed to clean the snow in the city's main roads with about 15,710 tonnes of snow-dissolving agent, Beijing Environmental Sanitation Group Co., Ltd. official Zhang Zhiqiang said[29].On the Monday, many motorways in Shandong were closed and 19 flights cancelled in the Yantai International Airport.

In Inner Mongolia, 13 trains were delayed that Monday in Hohhot, the regional capital, said the Hohhot railway authorities. Eventually the No. 1820 train, carrying more than 800 passengers, started off at after being stranded for 12 hours, they said.

January 6 saw Seoul’s worst snow fall since 1937 according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). The blizzard dumped 25.8 cm of snow on the town [30].

Continued snowstorms were forecast for the city of Beijing and the province of Inner Mongolia. Electricity rationing started on January 7 [31]. Snow had started falling in Gangsu province by January 7. It also was projected on January 7 to have reached the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Hubei on January 9 according to China National Radio [32] The Chinese government said that China faced its worst ice risk in 30 years [33]. By the night of January 8–9, the major snow storms predicted on January 7 for the provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui, had arrived and the emergency services were put on alert.

Continued snowstorms are forecast for the city of Beijing and the province of Inner Mongolia. Snow reached the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Hubei on January 9.[19] One person was killed in Xinjiang Autonomous Region as a result of the storm.[20]

On January 10, 1 person died and 5,435 were evacuated after snowstorm in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on January 10 according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. A total of 261,800 people in 12 counties or cities were affected by the blizzards [34].

25 Nepalese people, mostly children, died as a blizzard swept over most of Nepal on January 7[35][35][36]. Snow storms were also probably in mountainus Bhutan and Sikkim, but no reports were forth coming.

December 22–January 5 (Russian Far East and Alaska)

A Winter storm hit parts of Tannu Tuva on the 22nd, while a Siberian cyclone started up over Yakutia on the 22nd and headed for Khabarovsk Krai. December 23 to 26 saw heavy snow hit both Primorsky (Primorye) Krai, Khabarovsk Krai, Sakhalin Oblast, Kamchatka Krai [37][38] . The weekend saw migratory cyclone bringing a warm spell and snowstorms reaching Primorsky on the Friday [37][38] . Heavy snow badly disrupted life in Vladivostok on December the expected snow, sleet and gale-force wind occurred on Primorsky Krai’s south coast [37][38]. Over the two days temperatures rose from 4 degrees C. below zero up to 2 degrees C. below zero. On the night of December 26 the strengthening cyclone began drifting to the southern coast of Primorsky and over Sakhalin Krai [37][38]. Snow also falls in Amur Oblast.President Vladimir Putin visited Vladivostok on the 25th[39].

On December 30 an emergency warning about the passage of another powerful cyclone has been issued to all the territories and population centres along Russia’s Pacific Coast[40]. The expected gales, heavy snowfall, blizzards and a sharp fall of air temperatures hit the Sea of Okhotsk and the surrounding territories of Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai and Magadan Oblast[40]. The Far Eastern territorial centre of the federal Ministry for Emergency Situations and Civil Defence (E.M.E.R.C.O.M.) warned that the cyclone would produce snow banks, icy condition on automobile roads in the, as well as snow bringing down phone and power transmission lines in Primorsky territory[40]. The temperatures reckoned to have fallen near to the expected -7C. The temperature was that which usually occurs in a Siberian cyclone, when it reaches the Russian Far East[40]. Forecasters said there was a strong possibility of heavy snowfall and blizzards along the eastern districts of the Khabarovsk Krai, in parts of the Sakhalin Island and on the southern Kuril Islands December 31 and January 1[40]. Authorities and rescue services in Sakhalin Oblast were put on alert and warned of a high risks of avalanches on the island's numerous hills and mountains[40]. Another avalanche warning was in effect on the 2nd, for Sakhalin Island, due to hazardous levels of snow fall during yet another Siberian snow cyclone and blizzard, emergency officials said[41]. The authorities in Primorsky and Khabarovsk Krai were also put on alert, just in case things got ant worse[40]. The last two Russian Far Eastern storms burnt them selves out in the Gulf of Alaska on January the 5 and 6th respectively.

2010

January 1–10 (East Asia)

Between January 1 and 2, 2010, 50- and 70-year record low temperatures and snowfall hit northern China and Korea starting 1 January. Beijing was hit by a blizzard starting the evening of the 2nd, with 70-80% of flights cancelled out of Beijing Capital International Airport by January 4th[15], and close to 20 cm of snow fell in the north of the city, and close to 25 cm in Seoul.[42][43] Schools across the area were closed, and Premier Wen asked local governments to ensure safe transportation, continued food supplies, and continued agricultural production.[15] Continued snowstorms were forecast for the city of Beijing and the province of Inner Mongolia. It was also predicted on January 7 for snow to reach the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Hubei on January 9 according to China National Radio.[19] One person was killed in Xinjiang Autonomous Region as a result of the storm.[20]. Emergency servaces hadnded out extra cattel fodder in Tibet.

Hokkaido is hit by heavy snow, causing heavy travel disruption.

Avalanches and heavy snow hit the Russian's Sakhalin Island, which was smothered by a snow cyclone and blizzard, the Island’s emergency officials said.[44]

Civil authorities were put on a major alert in the snow-affected province of Shandong [45] on January 4 as more snow fell in both Shandong and Beijing. Travel is affected as Snowstorm Paralyzes Beijing on January 4, 2010 [46].

4-8 inches (10-20 centimeters) of snow fell in Beijing on the 5th, in the largest snowfall since 1951, on January 5, 2010 [47].

The 2,000 weather modification offices in China, which are responsible for bombing the skies with silver iodide to induce rain or snow will be put in to use.[27] Schools in Beijing and Tianjin closed and because the cities’ traffic was in chaos. The capital received its biggest snow fall since 1951, then immediately followed by the harshest Siberian winds in decades.[27] Temperatures for the 5th were forecast to plunge to -16c., a 40-year low, after a day-time maximum of -8c.[27] The head of the Beijing Meteorological Bureau, Guo Hu, linked the blizzard-like conditions this week to unusual atmospheric patterns caused by global warming. [27]

Heavy snow started to fall in Seoul, South Korea[48] and it was reported that a leading North Korean Communist party official had frozen to death, in his home, situated in the country's Sepo kun (or county).

During the peak hours of Monday morning, the Beijing Subway Operating Company dispatched 20 additional subway trains to ease the heavy passenger flow. City workers were deployed to clean the snow in the city's main roads with about 15,710 tonnes of snow-dissolving agent, Beijing Environmental Sanitation Group Co., Ltd. official Zhang Zhiqiang said[49].On the Monday, many motorways in Shandong were closed and 19 flights cancelled in the Yantai International Airport.

In Inner Mongolia, 13 trains were delayed that Monday in Hohhot, the regional capital, said the Hohhot railway authorities. Eventually the No. 1820 train, carrying more than 800 passengers, started off at after being stranded for 12 hours, they said.

January 6 saw Seoul’s wost snow fall since 1937 according to the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA). The blizzard dumped 25.8 cm of snow on the town [50].

Continued snowstorms were forecast for the city of Beijing and the province of Inner Mongolia. Electricity rationing started on January 7 [51]. Snow had started falling in Gangsu province by January 7. It also was projected on January 7 to have reached the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Hubei on January 9 according to China National Radio [52] The Chinese government said that China faced its worst ice risk in 30 years [53]. By the night of January 8–9, the major snow storms predicted on January 7 for the provinces of Jiangsu and Anhui, had arrived and the emergency services were put on alert.

Continued snowstorms are forecast for the city of Beijing and the province of Inner Mongolia. Snow reached the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Hubei on January 9.[19] One person was killed in Xinjiang Autonomous Region as a result of the storm.[20]

On January 10, 1 person died and 5,435 were evacuated after snowstorm in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on January 10 according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. A total of 261,800 people in 12 counties or cities were affected by the blizzards [54].

25 Nepalese people, mostly children, died as a blizzard swept most of Nepal on January 7[35][35][55].

January 12 (China)

Coal supplies ran low at power plants as the death toll rose to two in the current, strong snowstorm in Altai and temperatures fell to-40c. on January 12[56].

January 14 (East Asia)

The snow also began to relent in China, Korea and Japan.

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See also

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