Will it snow in summer in Beijing?

On the afternoon of July 28th, 2020, at about 3: 20 in Dongcheng District, Beijing, it began to snow.

Bian Yun, a senior engineer of China Meteorological Bureau, said that the possibility of snow at this time is almost zero.

He said that the temperature condition must be around 0℃ to observe snowflakes. According to the monitoring data of Beijing Meteorological Bureau, although there is rainy weather this afternoon, the temperature is still between 25 ~ 30℃, and it is almost impossible to have snowfall. "Now is the main flood season of Beijing's' seven rains and eight highs';

It is prone to local strong convective weather, so there is a great possibility of hail. Although hail is also white and granular, it is still different from snow. Some people disagree with this statement and think that what they see is definitely not hail.

There is an authoritative analysis of this. Dr. Zhi Zhi, a professor at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and a doctor of meteorology, said that what we should see is graupel, which may also appear in severe convective weather in summer.