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What kind of snow is it when it snows in March?

In the snow is peach blossom snow.

Since March, China has started a large-scale warming weather pattern. Especially in March this year, the temperature rose very quickly. In recent days, the national average temperature is 5~7 degrees higher than the same period last year. It seems that the weather from April to May entered ahead of schedule, and it feels like early summer.

In most areas south of the Yellow River, the temperature rises above 20℃, especially in many places in the south, where high temperature of 30℃ is formed. Especially in Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guangdong and other places, the local temperature reached the high temperature in early summer, more than one month earlier than normal, and the highest temperature in Yunnan reached 35.7℃.

With such a high temperature in the whole country, peach blossoms are in full bloom. In particular, peach blossoms in the south are in full bloom, and many places in the north are also in full bloom, at least in bud. What are the omens of peach blossoms and snowflakes? That is, the cold weather in late spring is coming and the flowers in warm weather are blooming. If it snows again, the flowers will be frozen, resulting in the cold in late spring.

Rural proverb: peach blossom and snow in March, clear and windy.

March is the season when peach blossoms are in full bloom. Peach blossoms are also the symbol of March, which adds to the beauty of March. After all, pink peach blossoms are full of romance.

Qingming refers to Tomb-Sweeping Day, the fifth of the 24 solar terms. "There are no flowers in Tomb-Sweeping Day in February, and the flowers are old in Tomb-Sweeping Day in March", which shows that Tomb-Sweeping Day is a season of blooming and colorful flowers.

This proverb means that it snowed when the peach blossoms were in full bloom in March, and layers of snowflakes fell on the peach blossoms, which looked very beautiful, but it was extremely unfavorable for the peach trees to bear fruit, because the low temperature freezing injury was very serious. If it snows in March, it will still be very cold in Tomb-Sweeping Day. This indicates the occurrence of cold weather in late spring, leading to cold air in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the cold air is still relatively active.