This Unbelievable Photo Shows Beijings Off-The-Charts Air Pollution

The air quality in Beijing, China is notoriously bad, but it was unspeakably terrible over the weekend.

How bad was the pollution? On a scale of 0-500 (500 being the worst), Beijing hit 755 on Saturday evening. That's not a typo -- Beijing's air was so bad that it shattered the existing scale.

That's according to the Beijing Air Monitor (@BeijingAir), a Twitter account run by the United States Embassy in Beijing that periodically tweets air sampling data from atop the embassy, per the New York Times.

01-12-2013 20:00; PM2.5; 886.0; 755; Beyond Index— BeijingAir (@BeijingAir) January 12, 2013

The air pollution level has since fallen to 152, which the account marks as "Unh…
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