What is the lowest temperature recorded in Beijing history?

We don't know how cold the Millennium extreme cold in Beijing can be. Meteorologist Zhang Mingying said that the temperature record in Beijing started from 1869, and now it is only 14 1 year. During the period of 14 1 year, Beijing's climate can be roughly divided into 1 1 stages, including six warm periods and five cold periods. At present, we are in a warm period. From this 1 1 stage, it can be clearly seen that the warming of climate period does not mean that all the years in this period are warming. During the two warmer periods of 19 19 to 1953 and 1958 to 1965, cold years also appeared respectively.

There was a cold period in Beijing a few years ago. On February 4th and 5th, 2008, the temperature in Beijing Plain dropped from 10℃ to 12℃ within 48 hours, which was the strongest cold wave weather process in 197 1 year. The low temperature of-13.5℃ also appeared on February 22nd, 2008, which was the lowest temperature since 1986.

Looking up the China Meteorological Disaster Ceremony Beijing Volume, we can get a glimpse of the coldest period in Beijing for thousands of years, when passers-by even froze to death. According to historical records, in the 12th year of Ming Chenghua (A.D. 1476), on the 13th day of the first month, it suddenly became cloudy and windy, and all the lights and candles in the suburban altar went out. The ceremonial personnel and music officials who are hanging nets in the altar in the southern suburbs http://www.dnfgua.in dnf froze to death, which shows that the climate was extremely cold at that time. Another example is February 18th, the first year of Qin Long in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1567). "The sudden cold is like a poor winter with a snowstorm at night. There are nine gates in the capital, and more than 170 people have frozen to death. " In the same year, under Chongwenmen, all the women in Shouyu (small sedan chair) died with their children in their arms. And the husband (sedan chair) is also a servant, and Russia is also stagnant and not resurrected "("Wanli Ye was compiled "). There were several disasters caused by extreme cold in Qing dynasty, which were also recorded in county annals. -Excerpts