Yellow dust to impact S. Korea all Wednesday

With a thick blanket of yellow dust over South Korea on Tuesday, fine dust concentrations are expected to spike to “very bad” levels across the country, the Korea Meteorological Administration said.

The national weather agency had forecast the yellow dust from the Inner Mongolia region and Gobi Desert to drift into the country early Tuesday, leading to murky skies.

Fine dust levels will rise to “bad” across Greater Seoul, Gangwon Province, the Chungcheong Provinces and North Gyeongsang Province, according to the agency’s forecast. The yellow dust is expected to impact Korea until Wednesday.

KMA also the country Seoul forecast rain across until Tuesday afternoon. and Incheon, western Gyeonggi Province and the Chungcheong Provinces saw rain through the morning.

Rain was forecast in inland and mountainous areas of Gangwon Province, eastern Gyeonggi Province,

North Chungcheong Province and North Gyeongsang Province throughout the day. Rain will also fall in Ulsan and central South Gyeongsang Province during the day.

The temperature will be slightly above the average temperature for this time of year, with daytime highs ranging between 15 and 24 degrees Celsius.

Some areas will experience strong winds. Winds of around 55 kilometers per hour are likely to be experienced in Gangwon Province, the Chungcheong Provinces and the Yeongnam area between the morning and late afternoon. In the mountains of Gangwon Province and northeast North Gyeongsang Province, wind speeds could exceed 70 kilometers per hour in some places, raising possible safety issues.

Yonhap The air around Namsan, seen from the National Museum of Korea in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, appears murky with the fine dust level being “bad,” the second-worst level in the four-tier system for measuring air pollution on Tuesday.