BEIJING- China issued dangerous heavy fog warnings for many regions and shipping was suspended in the Qiongzhou Strait, an important economic transport hub near Hainan, according to state and local media on Tuesday.
Video footage and pictures from social and local media showed thick fog in several cities with visibility of less than seven meters (20 feet) in some areas, according to Chinese meteorological forecasters.
The Central Meteorological Observatory announced a yellow warning on Tuesday morning for several provinces including parts of Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Guizhou and Guangdong, and the Guangxi region.
China has a four-tier, color-coded weather-warning system, with red representing the most severe warning, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
Visibility on the Qiongzhou Strait that separates Guangdong’s Leizhou Peninsula from the island province of Hainan was less than 200 meters (650 feet), prompting the Hainan Meteorological Service to issue an orange alert and advise traffic, shipping and other departments to take precautions, CCTV reported on Tuesday. – Reuters
