With a drop in temperatures affecting North and Central China, these areas have seen heavy smog for two days running now.
Visibility has been low since Monday morning not only in the capital Beijing, but also in the provinces of Hebei, Shandong and Henan. Traffic in a number of urban areas has been affected with visibility dropping to no more than 200 meters. The Hebei provincial Meteorological Centre issued an orange alert, and reports say 10 highways are closed. But this comes at the worst possible time, with China’s spring festival travel rush just beginning.
Long-distance coaches are blocked on many highways and traffic police have been deployed to help ease the situation. At one point earlier Tuesday, an air pollution monitoring station set up by the US Embassy in Beijing reported the capital’s air pollution as "beyond index."

溫度下降影響著我國的中部和北部,這些地區兩天內呈現大霧天氣。
能見度在周一早晨以來非常低,不僅在我國的首都北京,而且在河北省、山東省及河南省也是這種情況。在許多城市交通受到影響，能見度降至不超過200米。河北省級氣象中心發布橙色警報,報道稱十條高速公路都被關閉。但這恰巧在最不應該來的時候來臨,春運高峰剛剛開始。