PHOTOS: First Snow of 2018 in Guangdong

By Gary Bailer, January 9, 2018

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Yesterday, residents of Shaoguan, Guangdong, woke up to see the province's first snow of the year.

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It wasn't much, but at the nearby Nanling National Forest Park, entrepreneurial visitors were able to put together this snowman-like creation.

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Which later saw a few improvements:

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Elsewhere in the park, ice and snow made the trails a little more scenic.

The same (mostly) went for the city of Shaoguan.

Weibo user @jun女王 commented that, according to her neighbors, Shaoguan hasn't seen a snow like this since 2008.

Elsewhere in Guangdong, Qingyuan and Lianzhou also saw freezing temperatures and light snowfall.

Qingyuan's Jinzi Mountain

A bridge in Lianzhou

Although the temperature in Shenzhen and Guangzhou hasn't dipped low enough for snow yet, weather bureaus in both cities have released orange cold weather alerts – the first time Shenzhen's meteorological bureau has done so since 2016.

Low temperatures have also made driving dangerous on some highways in Guangdong; all the more reason to bundle up and stay inside over the next day or two.

[Images via Shaoguan Meteorological Bureau, Tencent News, news.163.com, Southern Metropolis Daily]

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