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Dry today, but more sleet is coming

By Ke Jiayun | March 4, 2015, Wednesday | Print Edition

TODAY will be mostly dry, though sleet is forecast overnight as cold and warm fronts collide, the Shanghai Meteorological Bureau said yesterday.

A chilly day is in store, with the mercury likely to fluctuate between 3 and 6 degrees Celsius, and conditions will remain much the same through tomorrow.

The sleet will give way to rain overnight, however, with up to 20 millimeters expected to fall on Friday, the bureau said.

The clouds should disperse somewhat on Saturday, ensuring a mostly dry day, though more rain is expected on Sunday, it said.

As of 6pm yesterday, the city’s air quality index was 158, or moderately polluted, with conditions expected to worsen overnight.

Part of the reason for the pollution is a sandstorm that has been moving south from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region over recent days.

Though its impact has been only marginal, it did mean the main contributor to the pollution was PM10 particles, rather than their tiny PM2.5 counterparts, said Wang Qian, a forecaster at the Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center.

The density of PM10 particles at 6pm yesterday was 180 micrograms per cubic meter, or nearly four times the World Health Organization’s safe level.

The sandstorm formed in Inner Mongolia and has moved steadily south through Shandong and Jiangsu Provinces, Wang said.

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