Severe Weather Strikes Beijing Upon Chinese Regime’s Annual Political Meeting

A group of men take photos as the sky goes dark in the mid afternoon amid an approaching thunderstorm in an alley south of Beijing's Tiananmen Square, during the opening ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in Beijing, China on May 21, 2020. GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images

Severe weather struck Beijing ahead of the Chinese regime’s most important series of annual political meetings in the city, with the sky suddenly turning dark on Thursday afternoon.

“Thunder rolling. Heavy gale blowing. The sky was very dark ... I have never seen this in my life,” said 87-year-old Chen Bingzhong, former director of China’s health education center. Chen was born and grew up in Beijing and has lived most of his life there.