Beijing Dust storms
1 min readBeijing Dust from the erosion of deserts in northern and northwestern China results in seasonal dust storms that plague the city;
the BeijingMeteorological Bureau sometimes artificially induces rainfall to fight such storms and mitigate their effects.In the first four months of 2006,there were more than eight such storms.February 2013,one dust storm alone dumped hundreds of thousands of tons of dust onto the city.