People are riding in heavy fog and contaminated air on Wenhua West Road in Zaozhuang, China, on January 3, 2024.
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Extremely heavy fog in a number of Chinese provinces on Thursday resulted in precariously low presence, closing highways, postponing flights out of Shanghai and triggering weather condition forecasters to launch a string of cautions and advisories.
Dense fog impacted Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and Fujian provinces with presence listed below 200 meters (656 feet) while some parts of southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui had presence listed below 50 meters, China’s National Meteorological Centre stated.
The Central Meteorological Observatory provided yellow and orange cautions for heavy fog as much as 7: 45 a.m. (2345 GMT). Haze is anticipated in lots of locations entering into Friday, Chinese weather condition forecasters anticipated.
Some locations of Anhui provided red cautions for heavy fog– the most major advisory– and lots of highways were momentarily closed, according to state media broadcaster CCTV news.
In Nanjing, capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu province, a number of locations were struck by severe fog triggering snarls in mass transit to differing degrees, CCTV reported.
China has actually a three-tier color-coded caution system for thick fog, with red being the most major, followed by orange and yellow.
The fog likewise triggered lots of set up flights out of Shanghai Pudong International Airport to be postponed or diverted over the last 3 hours, according to FlightView.com’s flight tracking app.
A Reuters witness flying to Harbin from Shanghai reported that her aircraft was postponed for hours.
“We just returned to the gate, so it looks like forever,” stated the disappointed tourist, exposing an image of a wall of thick grey mist outside an aircraft window that was covered with rain drops.
