File:Spring Sandstorm Scours China.jpg
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The first day of spring brought a massive sandstorm to <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/China" class="mw-redirect" title="China">China</a>. The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sand" title="Sand">sand</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dust" title="Category:Dust">dust</a> were swept thousands of kilometres south and east from the arid terrain of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inner_Mongolia" class="mw-redirect" title="Inner Mongolia">Inner Mongolia</a>. The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Yellow" title="Category:Yellow">yellow</a> dust reduced visibility and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Air" title="Category:Air">air</a> quality to potentially hazardous levels in the nation’s capital (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Beijing" class="mw-redirect" title="Beijing">Beijing</a>), and as far away as <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Taiwan" class="mw-redirect" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Japan">Japan</a>. Few landmarks or <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Topography" title="Category:Topography">topographic</a> features are recognizable beneath the dust, which covers the lower half of the image and wraps around the right-hand side in a comma shape that terminates in a large ball of dust near image centre. This <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pattern" title="Pattern">pattern</a> is consistent with the passing of a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cold_front" title="Category:Cold front">cold weather front</a> bearing a strong area of low <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pressure" title="Category:Pressure">pressure</a> at the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Surfaces" title="Category:Surfaces">surface</a>. These weather systems, known as mid-latitude cyclones, are often associated with giant comma-shaped <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cloud" title="Cloud">clouds</a> that reveal how air from a very wide area gets drawn in toward the low-pressure heart of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Storm" title="Storm">storm</a>.
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| current | 12:10, 8 January 2017 | | 6,828 × 8,192 (4.69 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | The first day of spring brought a massive sandstorm to <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/China" class="mw-redirect" title="China">China</a>. The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sand" title="Sand">sand</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Dust" title="Category:Dust">dust</a> were swept thousands of kilometres south and east from the arid terrain of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inner_Mongolia" class="mw-redirect" title="Inner Mongolia">Inner Mongolia</a>. The <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Yellow" title="Category:Yellow">yellow</a> dust reduced visibility and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Air" title="Category:Air">air</a> quality to potentially hazardous levels in the nation’s capital (<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Beijing" class="mw-redirect" title="Beijing">Beijing</a>), and as far away as <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Taiwan" class="mw-redirect" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> and <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Japan" class="mw-redirect" title="Japan">Japan</a>. Few landmarks or <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Topography" title="Category:Topography">topographic</a> features are recognizable beneath the dust, which covers the lower half of the image and wraps around the right-hand side in a comma shape that terminates in a large ball of dust near image centre. This <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pattern" title="Pattern">pattern</a> is consistent with the passing of a <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cold_front" title="Category:Cold front">cold weather front</a> bearing a strong area of low <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pressure" title="Category:Pressure">pressure</a> at the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Surfaces" title="Category:Surfaces">surface</a>. These weather systems, known as mid-latitude cyclones, are often associated with giant comma-shaped <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cloud" title="Cloud">clouds</a> that reveal how air from a very wide area gets drawn in toward the low-pressure heart of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Storm" title="Storm">storm</a>. |
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