Thick sandstorms will hit Beijing and several provinces through Wednesday, and Chinese forecasters have advised citizens of respiratory dangers and very low visibility while traveling, state media reported. | Reuters
The concentration of fine particulates in the air in Beijing is currently 46.2 times the World Health Organization’s annual air quality guideline value, according to IQAir, a website that issues air quality data and information.
A dozen provinces, including Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and Hubei, Inner Mongolia and metropolis Shanghai, will be affected by sandstorms and major dust until 8 a.m. Wednesday, the Central Meteorological Observatory said. The sandstorms were again a hot dicussion topic on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social media platform, racking up 2.178 million chats.
One user wrote, “What! When I wake up, why doesn’t anyone issue a holiday notice, do you still have to go to work in the dust today!”A Chinese government official at the Ministry of Ecology and Environment recently said the number of sandstorms was now four times higher than in the 1960s, a consequence of rising temperatures and lower precipitation in the deserts of north China and neighboring Mongolia.
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