HK AIR POLLUTION LEVEL: CRUNCHY
Mar. 22nd, 2010 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogSo here’s how my day went.
To put it in additional perspective, the pollution index MAXES OUT AT 500. So for all we know, it’s actually higher.
Interestingly, the cause is a sandstorm that hit Beijing this past weekend and is now being blown down the coast. So the odds of it happening again aren’t high, even on some of our worst days when we make our own smog (or import if from the factories just across the Chinese border).
Still, this is definitely the worst air pollution I've ever seen/breathed in here. My eyes were watering to and from work, and I wasn’t outside more than a few minutes at a time. And now my head hurts.
I’m working from home tomorrow.
Dust in the wind,
This is dF
Hong Kong's environmental protection department said local air pollution indices soared to levels of around 500, smashing the previous record of 202 recorded in July 2008. A reading above 51 is considered high.
To put it in additional perspective, the pollution index MAXES OUT AT 500. So for all we know, it’s actually higher.
Interestingly, the cause is a sandstorm that hit Beijing this past weekend and is now being blown down the coast. So the odds of it happening again aren’t high, even on some of our worst days when we make our own smog (or import if from the factories just across the Chinese border).
Still, this is definitely the worst air pollution I've ever seen/breathed in here. My eyes were watering to and from work, and I wasn’t outside more than a few minutes at a time. And now my head hurts.
I’m working from home tomorrow.
Dust in the wind,
This is dF
