From January 11th to 12th, a new wave of cold air sweep in and bring light to moderate rain to most parts of Guangdong, along with a bigger temperature drop of 5-7 ℃ in the north and central parts, and 3-5 ℃ down in the south as well.

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The lowest temperatures and strongest winds will appear in the morning between January 12-13th. Be prepared for some seriously changeable weather over the next few days.

3-Day Weather forecast for Guangzhou:

11th, light rain, 11-24℃

12th, cloudy with light rain, 9-14℃

13th, cloudy, 12-20 ℃

Since it’s set to be cold and rainy at this weekend, you may want to stay at home. Take a lesson from the real Lao Guang and enjoy a bowl of nutritious soup to warm yourself up. Here is a recipe for Yam Mutton Soup：

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Ingredients:

100g yam; 100g mutton; 3-4 pieces of ginger ; 1 scallion ; pepper; cooking wine; salt.

Cooking steps:

1.Peel yam, clean, cut into pieces and place in water to soak until adding to the soup.

2.Cut mutton into chunks and let them also soak in cold water for about half an hour.

3. Clean the scallion and ginger, and dice them.

4. Add 1,300ml water and mutton into the pot, and boil the water. Remove the froth with a spoon, add the scallion, ginger, pepper, cooking wine, and stew the mutton for 1 hour.

5. Finally add the yam, stew for another half an hour, and add salt to taste as the final step.

Authors: Hannah Zhou, Monica Liu

Editor: Simon Haywood