Sections of six Beijing highways are currently closed after
thick fog smothered the capital beginning Sunday night.
The Beijing Municipal Observatory has issued a yellow warning
against the fog and reports the visibility to be as low as 500
meters.
Cold air late on Monday night will bring fairly strong winds to
Beijing and disperse the fog, the observatory said.
Visibility in parts of east China's Shandong and Jiangsu
provinces, north China's Beijing and Tianjin municipalities and
northeastern China's Liaoning Province was a mere 200 meters.
More than 40 flights from Taoxian airport in Shenyang, capital
of Liaoning, were delayed on Sunday.
(Xinhua News Agency November 20, 2006)