Vehicles queue up during a snowfall at a closed entrance to the national Jingshen Expressway near Qinhuangdao City, north China's Hebei Province, on February 18, 2009. Rain and snowfall have helped ease a severe drought in northern and eastern China. [Xinhua]

Two Chinese walk past an ox statue during a snowfall in the costal city of Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, on February 18, 2009. Rain and snowfall have helped ease a severe drought in northern and eastern China. [Xinhua]