{"id":66660,"date":"2024-09-09T21:26:20","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T12:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/09\/chinese-city-underwear-storm-chongqing-heatwave-cloud-seeding"},"modified":"2024-09-09T21:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T12:26:20","slug":"warm-fronts-to-y-fronts-chinese-city-hit-by-underwear-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66660","title":{"rendered":"Warm fronts to Y-fronts: Chinese city hit by underwear storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chongqing authorities say cloud seeding to break heatwave did not cause winds that sent laundry flying<\/p>\n<p>It was the talk of the town. After the authorities sought to break a long-running heatwave in Chongqing by using cloud-seeding missiles to artificially bring rain, the Chinese megacity was blasted by an unusual weather event \u2013 an underwear storm.<\/p>\n<p>Termed \u201cthe 9\/2 Chongqing underwear crisis\u201d, an unexpected windstorm on Monday brought gusts of up to 76mph (122km\/h), scattering people\u2019s laundry from balconies on the city\u2019s high-rises. Douyin, China\u2019s sister app to TikTok, was filled with videos of pants and bras flying through the skies, landing in the street and snagging on trees.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/sep\/09\/chinese-city-underwear-storm-chongqing-heatwave-cloud-seeding\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chongqing authorities say cloud seeding to break heatwave did not cause winds that sent laundry flyingIt was the talk of the town. After the authorities sought to break a long-running heatwave in Chongqing by using cloud-seeding missiles to artificiall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,2331,2084,65,2997,455,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-drought","category-environment","category-extreme-heat","category-extreme-weather","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66661,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66660\/revisions\/66661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}