Snow falls in Wuxi during Spring Festival holiday

Marking the transition from the old year to the new, a heavy snow hit Wuxi city in East China's Jiangsu province on Feb 8 due to cold air meeting a warm and wet air current. As it was Spring Festival holiday, a number of tourists and residents hung out at various tourist attractions and enjoyed the snowy scenes.

A heavy snow is rare in Jiangsu province. Children had snowball fights and made snowmen. [Photo/IC]

Wuxi Grand Theater is now a wonderland of snow. [Photo/IC]

White snow makes the Qingming Bridge Scenic Area more still and quite. [Photo/IC]