Mid-week snow affects roads

Beijing's first snow this year finally stopped yesterday after causing some minor inconveniences for the city's residents.

From Monday evening to yesterday, an average of 4.5 mm of snow per day with a maximum of 7 mm had fallen on the city, Duan Li, chief weatherwoman of the Beijing meteorological bureau, told China Daily yesterday.

The bureau yesterday predicted it would be sunny to cloudy with no rain or snow today and tomorrow.