![]() On Wednesday, the wind and the sandstorm will taper off as rainfall comes to the Yangtze and Huaihe river regions. ![]() The capital's educational authority has requested all schools and educational institutions to suspend outdoor activities.Ĭhina Meteorological Administration forecast that the sandstorm will continue until Tuesday in Shandong, Hebei, Gansu provinces and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Hohhot, capital of Inner Mongolia, has upgraded its alert for sandstorm to orange, the second-highest in the three-tiered warning system.Īs of 4:40 pm, Beijing Capital International Airport canceled 46 flights and Beijing Daxing International Airport canceled eight flights due to the sandstorm, according to the airports.īeijing Meteorological Service weather forecasters discuss the development of the sandstorm on Monday. DENG WEI/FOR CHINA DAILY Related departments and rescue workers in the city were on 24-hour standby, the authorities said. The airport in Manzhouli was also temporarily closed for safety reasons at noon on Monday, according to the city's authorities. In Manzhouli and Baotou, in China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, schools suspended their classes on Monday due to the sandstorm. Many yurts-traditional tent dwellings-and power lines were taken down in the storm in several provinces, especially in Dundgovi province, the agency added. Searches were underway for the remaining missing people, it said. The Mongolian agency said that 579 of the 590 people who got lost in the storm were found alive. Visibility remained lower than 500 meters in some areas of northern China as the center issued a yellow alert, the lowest level in the three-tier weather alert system, on Monday morning.Īt 8 pm on Monday, the level of PM10 particles in Beijing dropped to 864 micrograms per cubic meter in six major urban districts, down from 8,108 micrograms per cubic meter at 9 am, according to the Beijing Ecological and Environment Monitoring Center.ĭust and snowstorms are frequent in the spring in Mongolia.Īt least nine people were killed in a heavy dust and snowstorm in Mongolia over the weekend, the country's National Emergency Management Agency said on Monday. Remote sensing images showed the storm covered an area of 466,000 square kilometers, including Beijing and Tianjin, the Inner Mongolia autonomous region and Hebei, Shanxi, Gansu, Shaanxi, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces. The sandstorm was the strongest in nearly a decade and affected 12 provincial-level regions in northern China, according to the National Meteorological Center. The capital, together with many regions in northern China, experienced the strongest sandstorm in nearly a decade, according to the National Meteorological Center. FENG YONGBIN/CHINA DAILYĪ sand and dust storm from Mongolia swept through northern areas of China on Monday and led to the suspension of classes at schools and flight cancellations. Commuters brave a sandstorm in Beijing on Monday.
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