Life in Jamestown. Find out what it took to be a settler in the early-American colony of Jamestown. Introduction. On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River.
Winters in Shanghai are about as cold as winters in Seattle (but quite a bit less rainy). In southern China, it's a bit hard to say. In the mountains of southwestern China, winters are mild to cool, but now very cloudy and almost always without any snow, while in lower southeastern China, winters are warm and humid, like in Florida. December 21, 2010
Â© VCG via Getty Images People holding umbrellas walk in the heavy snow on Jan. 4, 2018 in Hefei, Anhui Province of China. China warned of a second wave of snow and sleet hitting northern, central and eastern parts of the country on Friday after record snowfall paralyzed parts of the country.