PEOPLE in North China will have a cool National Day holiday week.

　　According to China's Central Meteorological Station, two cold currents will hit North China _ one over the next two days and the another from October 4 to 6.

　　The cold currents, moving west to east, will result in gales, rain and snow. The temperatures will drop by 8 to 12 Celsius degrees in northern parts of North China and Northeast China.

　　Temperatures will fall by 5 or 6 degrees in the central and southern parts of North China and in most of the Yellow River and Huaihe River valleys.

　　While some parts of Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province can expect drizzle.

　　People in most of the northern regions will enjoy blue skies and few changes in temperature and wind force.

　　Clear or cloudy weather will dominate the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, while some South China provinces, as well as southeastern parts of Yunnan and Sichuan provinces and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, will have rain during the first three days of the holiday.

　　However, there will be rain and a drop in temperatures from October 4 to 7 in eastern parts of Southwest China, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze as well as western and northern parts of South China.

　　Meteorologists have reminded travelers to carry wet weather gear and warm clothes.

　　(Xinhua)