So we had heard about “yellow dust” from some of our co-teacher, but we didn’t really know what to expect. Until today.
Yellow dust is caused by sandstorms that occur in China and Mongolia. The dust is then carried on winds across to east Asia and sometimes it contains pollutants from factories in China. And it’s hit Korea today and it’s pretty gross. Safe to say, Rich and I will be staying in all evening because I’m not going out in the dust. Here’s some pictures we took from the apartments. The first one is “normal”, the rest are real and the colours haven’t been altered:
Ew ew ew.
Looks horrible, kinda understand why you see the Chinese walking round cities in those 3M masks
How long does this last for?
By: Mim on March 21, 2010
at 8:03 pm
They have the masks in Korea too!! Some have comic dog/cat noses and whiskers – very cute.
It doesn’t last long, it was about 6 hours but it depends on the wind really. It was really windy so it did disappear after awhile, but we still didn’t go outside!!!!
By: vicandric on March 22, 2010
at 11:16 am
don’t blame you guys, it looks scary :S
By: Mim on March 26, 2010
at 8:54 pm