The Xiji county is located
on the southwest edge of southern mountain area of Ningxia Hui Nationality
Autonomous Region and has typical dry and half dry continent weather
characteristics, belonging to medium temperate zone half dry, dry
steppe living creature climatic zone. Equally decline water to measure
is 427.9 mms for several years. Most water concentrates in July,
August, and September. Average evaporating amount is 1482.3 mms
for several years, is 3.4 times of decline amount of water. Annually
spring sowing, the soil is dry and cracked and the grain seedling
is hard to sprout. Dry has become people's serious trouble.
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In spring and winter, weather
here is dry, the air is abnormally dry. Sandstorm often invades
this area.
On May 24, 2007, the weather suddenly and greatly changes; the
strong breeze rises everywhere, flying sand hit stones, for it has
been no rain for half of a year, so when dust floating in the sky,
the weather at that time becomes ash deeply yellow. Our team members
take these photographs in sandstorm and under the danger of blowing
away. This photo is one of them. When returning home, everyone becomes
soil person, and with mouthful mud……
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