Terror: China’s dust storms are coming back and “swallowing” cities

China’s sand and dust storms have resurfaced, with Beijing’s Central Weather Bureau issuing a blue alert for sand and dust storms early this morning, after they had already hit some cities yesterday.

Beijing’s Central Weather Bureau issued a blue alert for sand and dust storms this morning, affecting areas including southeastern Xinjiang and the South Xinjiang Basin, northwestern Qinghai, parts of central and western Gansu, Ningxia, northern Shaanxi, north-central Shanxi, Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, northwestern Shandong and other places will have sandy or dusty weather, including the southern Xinjiang South Xinjiang Basin and north-central Inner Mongolia sub-regions have sand and dust storms.

Sandstorm again 😡 no end to it 🥵 pic.twitter.com/c11OuiJhTN

  • Ho i✝️i🇺🇸iA2 (@S7i5FV0JOz6sV3A) April 26, 2021
    Netizens posted a video showing a sandstorm hitting the western corridor of the river: “The sandstorm is here again, there is no end to it!”

The Twitter account “Chen Tang Guan” also posted an image of a sandstorm “engulfing” Linze County in Zhangye City, Gansu Province, captured by the official media “Zhongxin.com”, saying it was amazing. The official media report described the horrific attack as a “wall of sand and dust” that rolled into the city.

Gansu Jinchang City Sand and dust storm
April 25, 2021 pic.twitter.com/hAydNDkw5c

  • Bai Qi’s record (@tw_tomy_) April 26, 2021
    On April 25, the Central Meteorological Station has issued a message that sand and floating dust are expected in some areas of the southern Xinjiang basin, central and western Gansu, central and western Inner Mongolia and northern China during the four days from April 25 to 28. Among them, April 25, central and western Inner Mongolia and western Gansu localities have # sand and dust storms.

From March 15, the strongest sand and dust storms in the past decade occurred in many provinces on the mainland, involving central and western Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, northern Shaanxi, northern Shanxi, northern Hebei, Beijing and many other places. Later, in late March and mid-April, strong dust and sandy weather also reappeared.