Shanghai Pollution Orange Alert Red Blue. Shanghai will use a more flexible air quality warning system with a new. 11 – Beijing will issue a yellow alert for heavy air pollution at 4 pm. More than 72 hours. Status yellow warnings are the standard weather advisory notices that are issued by Met Éireann.
This change to the alert system will likely cause more frequent pollution alerts in the city. The national observatory advised local authorities to remain alert for possible flooding landslides and mudslides and recommended halting outdoor operations in hazardous areas. Construction sites were ordered to suspend open-air operations. The blue alert used to be issued when the AQI was between 151-200 and short-term heavy pollution was predicted in Shanghai within 24 hours. Shanghai activated this years first blue-color air pollution alarm at 8am today after the air quality index AQI surpassed 200 the threshold of heavy pollution. According to the governments Winter Ready handbook this is how the colours break down.
Under Beijings current air pollution warning system yellow alert is the least severe followed by orange and red.
When the levels jump to orange or in the case of Storm Ophelia in 2017 red the alerts are issued to broadcast media and local authorities. Tangshan Chinas biggest steelmaking city removed the orange alert. Shanghais adjusted four-tier air pollution alert system. It is the first time China has declared a red alert under the four-tier alert system which was adopted a little over two years ago although pollution levels were far from the citys worst. 10 Shanghai Institute of Pollution Control and Ecological Security Shanghai 200092. 11 – Beijing will issue a yellow alert for heavy air pollution at 4 pm.