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Towering buildings in the city proper are hazed by floating dust, as the first "yellow dust" storm of this year shrouds the urban areas after northerly wind blew in sand from drought-hit northern China exacerbating the yellowish sky, in Beijing, March 15, 2009. The sand came from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Gansu and Qinghai provinces, where sandstorms raged earlier this week after prolonged drought, according to the Central Meteorological Bureau. [Wang Huaigui/Xinhua]
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![Towering buildings in the city proper are hazed by floating dust, as the first 'yellow dust' storm of this year shrouds the urban areas after northerly wind blew in sand from drought-hit northern China exacerbating the yellowish sky, in Beijing, March 15, 2009. The sand came from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Gansu and Qinghai provinces, where sandstorms raged earlier this week after prolonged drought, according to the Central Meteorological Bureau. [Wang Huaigui/Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20090316/000cf1a48b7f0b27e77502.jpg "Towering buildings in the city proper are hazed by floating dust, as the first 'yellow dust' storm of this year shrouds the urban areas after northerly wind blew in sand from drought-hit northern China exacerbating the yellowish sky, in Beijing, March 15, 2009. The sand came from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Gansu and Qinghai provinces, where sandstorms raged earlier this week after prolonged drought, according to the Central Meteorological Bureau. [Wang Huaigui/Xinhua]")
