Mongolia warns of looming hwangsa disaster

The head of Mongolia’s weather bureau warned Korean reporters to prepare for the worst hwangsa (Asian dust phenomenon) in memory this spring (in Korean).

This entry was written by Robert Koehler, posted on March 7, 2007 at 4:17 pm, filed under Asides, East and Central Asia, Mongolia, South Korea. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. boshintang your flag
    Posted March 7, 2007 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

    Great. :-/

    Any way you can summarize some of that in English by the way?

  2. Robert Koehler your flag
    Posted March 7, 2007 at 7:07 pm | Permalink

    Well, it’s a bit long, but the key point is that Mongolia had its warmest winter in 60 years and precipitation was extremely low, which means a ton of dust coming to Korea not only this spring, but every spring for the next five years. According to a 2003 report by the Mongolian nature and environment ministry, some 684 rivers, 760 lakes and 1,484 wells have dried up, and needless to say the drier it gets, the more dust that gets picked up by the springtime westerlies that carry the dust our way.

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