{"id":209,"date":"2014-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2014\/03\/07\/post-202-pollution-wave-in-seoul-feb-march-2014\/"},"modified":"2014-03-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T00:00:00","slug":"post-202-pollution-wave-in-seoul-feb-march-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2014\/03\/07\/post-202-pollution-wave-in-seoul-feb-march-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-202: Pollution Wave in Seoul, Feb.-March 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
It’s getting to be springtime, which is a time when Seoul’s skies have a way of “betaking an awful shade<\/a>” of orangish-somethingish, allegedly from dust storms way off in China somewhere. One of my first posts here (#12<\/a>), about this time last year, attempted to document one of those episodes. I was in Korea at the time.

<\/span><\/span>Having been in the USA since January 31st 2014, I missed the most recent episode of this, which was big, sustained. I saw my friend Jared mention it<\/a>. The “Air-Korea” website confirms it. Pollution data easily accessible there. <\/div>\n
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Here is the PM-10 air pollution data for February 1st to today, by hour, for “my city”: <\/div>\n
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PM-10 Air Pollution \/ Bucheon, Korea (near Seoul) \/ Feb.-March 2014 \/ [Source: Air-Korea<\/a>] <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/span>The pollution “spike” you see there (yellow and orange) lasted eight full days<\/strong>, from late evening February 21st all the way through till late evening March 1st. (A second [30-hour] spike occurred two days later.) <\/div>\n
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March First is “<\/span><\/span>Korean Independence Movement Day”. It’s nice that the pollution decided to lift in line with that holiday. It was even followed by “blue skies” [blue boxes, i.e. clean air] in the AM of March 2nd, even if just briefly.
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I think I’m glad I missed this one. It’s quite unhealthy to be in those sustained “orange box” conditions. I remember running late once in Korea (actually running<\/em>, too, to make time), on a day pollution was at those levels. I wasn’t in bad shape, either. I started to cough pretty quickly. Not good.

<\/span><\/span>It’s in the 60s Fahrenheit (15-20 C) here in Arlington, Va., as I write, after snow last week. I’m pretty sure that most places in the USA (including Arlington) would have blue boxes on the above chart most every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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