Central Meteorological Station yesterday (April 14) evening again issued a blue alert for sand and dust storms, this time has been the third round of sand and dust storm weather in mainland China this year. Central Meteorological Station refers to, by the cold air gale influence, is expected yesterday evening 8 pm to 8 pm on Sunday, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei and other places will appear sand or floating dust weather, including some areas in western Inner Mongolia have sand and dust storms.
Beijing on March 15 was covered by sandstorms, daytime as dusk, netizens said “Beijing became the Northern Song”.
Beijing Meteorological Station said yesterday ground observation data, is expected to have sand and dust weather in Beijing this afternoon to the first half of the night, the minimum visibility of about six kilometers. Due to the high soil moisture in the upper reaches compared to March, coupled with the inhibiting effect of precipitation, the dust intensity is significantly weaker than the dust storm process on March 15 and 28.
On the day of March 15, yellow sand raged in Beijing, and the daytime was like dusk, with visibility of 300 to 800 meters in most parts of Beijing. This was the strongest dust storm in Beijing in the past 10 years.
After that, the sand and dust was like an “open valve” and came to Beijing every now and then to “sneak” around, causing the air quality to decline and visibility to be affected.
On March 28, the sandstorm again affected the whole Beijing area, the city’s PM10 average value broke 2000μg/m3, Beijing environmental monitoring, said that day is the most serious impact of the sandstorm on Beijing’s air quality period, PM10 will be in a high concentration state, for the level 6 severe pollution.
Beijing sandstorm recently quickly became a hot topic of discussion on the Chinese network. Netizens have been laughing at themselves saying, “With this weather in Beijing, it’s hard not to ride a camel” and “Beijing is being scraped back into the yellowing paintings of the Northern Song Dynasty by the sand and dust.” “Beijing has turned into the Northern Song Dynasty”.
In response, several official departments of the Communist Party of China (CPC) have been shrugging it off, saying that the source of the scourge began in Mongolia. But it was challenged by netizens.
In recent decades, dust storms and haze have taken turns to ravage northern China. Air pollution, excessive cutting of windbreak forests, and desertification of grasslands due to over-exploitation have all been cited as possible causes.
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