As a surrealistic image dawned Peking this Saturday. Immersed in a dense cloud yellow color, the visibility diminished greatly and, although it did not cause accidents in the highways, it forced the use of masks the persons who risked to go out to the street.
The phenomenon happened when tons of sand of the deserts of the interior of China came with a thunderstorm that brought enormous dust quantities, about the midnight. The office of meteorology of Peking, there registered a maximum level of contamination, level 5, considered to be very dangerous for the human health for containing a particles concentration with thickness of more than 1.500 micrograms of granules for cubic meter.
Being this one of the worst thunderstorms that remember the places, few persons risked going out of his houses, and the parks and open spaces that are usually replete from early with citizens who practise martial arts, dances and all kinds of activities, they were today almost desert.
As he informed the Bureau of Environmental Protection, the thunderstorm that came to Peking with enormous quantities of dust and with direction to the southeast, it reached in the district of Changping, wind gusts of up to 100 kilometers per hour and covered also the provinces of Qinghai and Gansu, and the western Xinjiang region, before coming to the capital.
It is, not to doubt it, a different postcard of mysterious Peking.
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