they are into yunnan province. snow affecting the region, disrupting traffic and knocking out power supplies to urban and rural areas. snow started back on wednesday night in yunnan. temperatures dropped well below zero. roads closed due to widespread fog, which backed up the traffic on some of the highways for several miles. very messy situation across this region. it looks like you will see that rain and even the mix of freezing rain into the system as it starts to push off toward the east. meanwhile, we've also been talking about the tropical depression over the philippines, bringing rainfall for up 50 to 100 millimeters in the past 24 hours. the reason i bring this up, risk of flooding here, but as this pushes off toward the north. the low out of china and will combine, and it looks like as they merge together, a very strong and deep low pressure system will start by early next week and push off toward japan. you see it shoot on the model map here, but that will bring gale force winds, even some heavy rainfall