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[ghost]

The teachers and trainees at my school told me there will be a lot more days of damaging 'yellow dust' coming up in the next few weeks/months, but is there a place where I can check the levels from day to day? On the Internet.

I checked the local press online, but no mention of yellow dust?

I run/speed walk or ride a bike most days of the week, and would obviously like to know the levels before venturing out.

An English website would be necessary, because I have not yet learned to read hangeul.

Thanks for any tips.

Ghost

[Riddzy]

http://www.seoul.amedd.army.mil/sites/yellowsand/default.asp

http://www.seoul.amedd.army.mil/sites/yellowsand/Info_Card.pdf

[Riddzy]

http://www.seoul.amedd.army.mil/sites/yellowsand/default.asp

http://www.seoul.amedd.army.mil/sites/yellowsand/Info_Card.pdf

[Riddzy]

http://www.seoul.amedd.army.mil/sites/yellowsand/default.asp

http://www.seoul.amedd.army.mil/sites/yellowsand/Info_Card.pdf

[Riddzy]

dammit! sorry.

[Chamchiman]

There is a similar site in Korean, but it covers the entire country. You can click on the city you live in to see the current conditions:

http://www.kma.go.kr/dust/dust_01_02.jsp

(The entire site http://www.kma.go.kr/weather_main.jsp is pretty good actually.)

However, I haven't been able to find a site where we can see a yellow dust forecast. Anybody know such a site?

[ghost]

Thanks for the army site info about yellow dust.

According to the graph, the general level of yellow dust is below 100 this weekend, which is considered moderate, so, I assume, it is fine for most of us to exercise and go about normal business outside.

The Yonsan site does not mention different regions of Korea, or am I missing something? Is it generalized, and if so, why, because the north, surely, is more affected compared with southern areas of Korea?

Ghost

[ttompatz]

[twg]

Something similar for smog levels would be pretty good.