{"id":134541,"date":"2020-08-07T10:19:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T01:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=134541&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2020-08-07T10:19:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T01:19:41","slug":"volcanic-eruptions-possible-cause-of-white-haze-over-fukuoka","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/volcanic-eruptions-possible-cause-of-white-haze-over-fukuoka\/","title":{"rendered":"Volcanic Eruptions Possible Cause of White Haze Over Fukuoka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A thick white haze has covered many areas of Kyushu in the past few days, resulting in blurry views and a whitish sky. Partially related, the level of PM2.5 particles has been somewhat high for the time of the year. Weather specialists believe the foggy skies might have been caused in part by recent eruptions on the island of Nishinoshima (in the Ogasawara Islands.) Massive eruptions have been reported on the island since mid-June. <\/span><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/tenki.jp\/lite\/forecaster\/watarumatsui\/2020\/08\/04\/9257.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tenki JP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-134542\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/foggy-skies.jpg?resize=1024%2C650&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/foggy-skies.jpg?resize=1024%2C650&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/foggy-skies.jpg?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/foggy-skies.jpg?resize=768%2C487&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/foggy-skies.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Disclaimer<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area news for those who cannot read Japanese. These are mostly summaries of publicly posted news from the Japanese media. Errors might occur during translation, those are ours. Images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Use<\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this form<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to send feedback. Please share links to this page, it helps us.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More Kyushu news on<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FukuokaNow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fukuokanews\/\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fukuokanow\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thick white haze has covered many areas of Kyushu in the past few days, resulting in blurry views and a whitish sky. Partially related, the level of PM2.5 particles has been somewhat high for the time of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":134542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-134541","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-environment","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/134541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}