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Beijing Hit With Worst Sandstorm in a Decade
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March 15, 2021
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0:52Now PlayingA sandstorm sweeping across much of northern China left Beijing in an orange fog and helped push air quality levels in the capital to the worst since 2017.
Beijing’s government issued a yellow alert, the first sandstorm warning this year. The Air Quality Index surged to 500, well above health emergency levels, and a thick orange haze limited visibility to less than 3,280 feet Monday morning. Chinese social media was rife with pictures of the city’s iconic buildings enveloped by the dust, with many users saying it’s the worst sandstorm in years.
Levels of ultra-fine particulates in the air in Beijing surged to as high as 680 micrograms per cubic meter, the highest concentration since May 2017, according to records kept by the U.S. embassy there. Concentrations of slightly larger particles more commonly associated with sand surged to more than 2,000 per cubic meter at some monitoring stations.
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