A timely snow portends a bumper harvest, and northerners love nothing more than a spring snow.
The flakes are large and vigorous, but because the overall temperature has risen, the snow is not as heavy as a winter snow. It drifts down in a flurry, easily cleared away by a passing snowplow, with whatever remains melting almost instantly.
A snowfall does not mean an immediate, drastic drop in temperature, so the ground is still warm, welcoming and absorbing the melting snow. Across the flat expanse of the North China Plain, newly sown seeds are greedily drinking in this moisture brought by the timely rain.
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