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Mar '10
Saturday morning we woke to an orange sky and very poor visibility. We later learned that it was a dust storm blowing from the desert. Beijing’s weather bureau gave a rare hazardous air quality ranking. A sand storm in 2006 dumped 300,000 tons of sand on Beijing- yes 300,000 tons!!
These four photos were taken from our window early Saturday morning.
It is now Monday afternoon and the wind is still high, although the intensity of the sand has decreased. However the visibility and air quality remain poor.
These photos were taken from the same window at 2:00 p.m. today.
More photos taken on Monday afternoon:
Hope you stayed indoors! That looks crazy.
Much worse than the blowing sand across from the farmer’s field
Yes,we did stay inside. We were going to go bicycling but when we walked outside the wind was so high we decided against it.