what happened today? (Sun. March 10)

[Taro Toporific]

it was nice, very nice, then all of a sudden it looks like this outside:

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Greetings from Red China! (or a screenshot from The Day After...)

[omae mona]

The whole family has been staring out the window the last 10 minutes with jaws dropped. Wife has basically been muttering "f***ing China" under her breath since yesterday. Never quite seen it like this.

[yanpa]

Same here in Tokyo... thought I'd been teleported to mainland China

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[james]

The haze doesn't seem to be anywhere near that bad out here but the pollen is ridiculous and of course everything is covered in it. That's crazy though.. damn.

[yanpa]

That wasn't haze, that was actual dust blowing about.

[Yokohammer]

That wasn't haze, that was actual dust blowing about.

Yup. Aeolian dust. Asian dust. Yellow sand. Yellow wind.

That thar is sand and dust from the deserts of Mongolia and China.

Not so bad up here, but we are having a windstorm like I have never heard or seen (outside of a typhoon, that is). It is HOOOOWLING!

[Phoenix_stu]

Yup... On boarder of Suginami and Setagaya and the Yellow Death from China rolled in. Bright and beautiful and walked to kitchen to fix a cup-o-joe and came back to this... Just stupid crazy!!

From my balcony...




And from other side of house outside of front door.

[nikoneko]

Yep. From Nishinomiya looking towards Kobe yesterday. You should be able to see the Rokko Mountains in that..

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[Coligny]

Sorry, i farted... ate too much crayons...

[Phoenix_stu]

He who smelt it, dealt it.

[Coligny]

Don't go talking aboot the rules of the Litter Club in public please...

[Samurai_Jerk]

The news is saying it ain't yellow dust from China.

[Coligny]

Do they say what it is per any chance ?

[Phoenix_stu]

Well what in the hay(fever) is it? See what I did there. hahaha

[Taro Toporific]

Do they say what it is per any chance ?

It's against the law to publish that info in Tokyo---Just look closely at the Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map
...

Air Pollution in Asia_ Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map.jpg

http://www.aqicn.info/?map
If click on the map, you'll also find the data from Yokohama "mysteriously" stopped.

Yokohama, Japan AQI, PM2.5 Real-time Air Pollution Index-1.jpg

[Phoenix_stu]

Why is that Taro?

[Samurai_Jerk]

Do they say what it is per any chance ?

煙霧

Edit: Just found an article in English.

A huge dust storm hit Tokyo Sunday, blanketing the city with brown dust that darkened the skies and rapidly transformed what had been a clear and sunny day.
Visibility in the capital deteriorated quickly as dry dust particles whirled through the air.
Meteorologists said the phenomenon was caused by a sudden cold front, and was not linked with the suffocating pollution that hung over the Chinese capital Beijing last winter.
"A rapidly developing low pressure system in the north was moving down south. It was bringing a snow storm in the north, and strong winds in Tokyo and surrounding areas," said a meteorologist at the Japan Meteorological Agency.
"In the Kanto region (Tokyo and surrounding areas), the strong winds picked up dry dust particles from the ground, which lowered visibility," he said.

[Coligny]

"In the Kanto region (Tokyo and surrounding areas), the strong winds picked up dry dust particles from the ground, which lowered visibility," he said.

Wait, didn't it rain like pissing cows last week, my front stairwells are still dripping... Yet it's the dustbowl in Kanto ?

It's against the law to publish that info in Tokyo---Just look closely at the Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map
...

Why is that Taro?

Because the asylum have been totally overrun by the inmates, nukular powerplant don't kill people, bad news and stress do, only good news shall be reported and we have always been at war wih eastasia...

also... WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

[legion]

Sorry, i farted... ate too much crayons...

classic

[Taro Toporific]

Why is that Taro?

Tokyo has not invented automated air pollution measuring yet so no measurements are available in real time (J-bureaucrats don't want the people to have proof of their incompetence/fraud).
However, Tokyo government does provide last year's air pollution records in a "convenient" CSV format, in a ZIP file : http://www.kankyo.metro.tokyo.jp/air/ai ... ement.html

[Phoenix_stu]

Good point. Forgot the ever lasting need for blindsiding here.

[matsuki]

Shit was nasty yesterday...wanted one of these suits just to leave the house

[Taro Toporific]

Good point. Forgot the ever lasting need for blindsiding here.

The murderous fuckwards released the data the day after it was needed.

Sunday's data released Monday noon

Saitama, Japan AQI, PM2.5 Real-time Air Pollution Index.jpg

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But wait, there's more!
At the national level, the Japan Meteorological Agency intentionally unplugged their real-time monitoring equipment for "Observation" in advance of the Kousa---toxic Chinese Shitsand season.

Japan Meteorological Agency Aeolian Dust Information.jpg

However, the Meteorological Agency is offering wildly wrong "Predictions" of Aeolian Dust (aka toxic shitsand)

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http://www.jma.go.jp/en/kosafcst/index.html

[matsuki]

It's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhck

[yanpa]

But wait, there's more!
At the national level, the Japan Meteorological Agency intentionally unplugged their real-time monitoring equipment for "Observation" in advance of the Kousa---toxic Chinese Shitsand season.

Japan Meteorological Agency Aeolian Dust Information.jpg

Sorry to spoil the conspiracy theory, but a version of the Japanese page is available. However there's some blah about the normal system being down since January due to "処理プログラムの不具合" if it helps build a case for deliberate incompetence (presumably they couldn't be bother to update or add an explanation to the English version of the page).

[Coligny]

But wait, there's more!
At the national level, the Japan Meteorological Agency intentionally unplugged their real-time monitoring equipment for "Observation" in advance of the Kousa---toxic Chinese Shitsand season.

Japan Meteorological Agency Aeolian Dust Information.jpg

Sorry to spoil the conspiracy theory, but a version of the Japanese page is available. However there's some blah about the normal system being down since January due to "処理プログラムの不具合" if it helps build a case for deliberate incompetence (presumably they couldn't be bother to update or add an explanation to the English version of the page).

d00d, there is no data point since after march 10...

Ok, Tarochan is a cold war dinosaur ready to see a commie invasiun plot every time his Derrick rerun is late on TV... But there is a strong case of

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[Samurai_Jerk]

It's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhck

Really?

I'm at the office in Minato-ku and things are looking OK here.

[yanpa]

But wait, there's more!
At the national level, the Japan Meteorological Agency intentionally unplugged their real-time monitoring equipment for "Observation" in advance of the Kousa---toxic Chinese Shitsand season.

Japan Meteorological Agency Aeolian Dust Information.jpg

Sorry to spoil the conspiracy theory, but a version of the Japanese page is available. However there's some blah about the normal system being down since January due to "処理プログラムの不具合" if it helps build a case for deliberate incompetence (presumably they couldn't be bother to update or add an explanation to the English version of the page).

d00d, there is no data point since after march 10...

Apart from from the two data points on March 11th?

Ok, Tarochan is a cold war dinosaur ready to see a commie invasiun plot every time his Derrick rerun is late on TV... But there is a strong case of

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I'm more than happy to accept there's a lot of uncomfortable stuff going down (whether deliberate or through incompetence), it's just that I prefer not to jump to conclusions on the basis of one data point ("English version of site down - the whole system must be intentionally unplugged").

[yanpa]

It's baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhck

Really?

I'm at the office in Minato-ku and things are looking OK here.

there's a fair bit of soil blowing off the field over the road due to the wind ( edge of the 23ku) but no duststorm like Sunday.