What are the effects of snowstorm and strong sandstorm weather in Mongolia?

According to the news released on March 15 on the website of the General Bureau of Emergency Situations of Mongolia, as of March 17, 18 people have been killed in 5/kloc-0 counties in eastern Mongolia, Sukhbaatar, South Gobi, Central Gobi and Gobi provinces in Sombert, and their whereabouts are still unknown.

According to the website, up to now, the General Emergency Bureau of Mongolia has received reports of 590 people missing, and emergency departments and local governments in various provinces have searched for 579 people. At present, there are still 1 people missing in Sukhbaatar province, and all efforts are being made to search for them.

In addition, according to incomplete statistics, this sandstorm lost more than 200 livestock/kloc-0, and the number of livestock deaths has not yet been counted.

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Northern China has been hit by the strongest sandstorm in recent ten years.

According to the information of China Weather Network, from the morning of March 14 to June 15 at 202 1, due to the influence of cold air, sand or floating dust appeared in the west of Xinjiang Nanjiang Basin, central and western Gansu, Inner Mongolia, northwestern Shanxi, northern Hebei and Beijing, and sandstorms appeared in some areas.

The Central Meteorological Observatory upgraded the sandstorm warning to a yellow warning this morning: It is expected that there will be obvious sandstorms in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning and other 12 provinces, cities and autonomous regions from day to night, and sandstorms will occur in some areas.

This is also the strongest and most influential sandstorm weather in China in recent 10 years.

10 people died in China Youth Network-Mongolian blizzard and strong sandstorm weather, and 1 people are still missing.