A woman walks in the gale in Beijing. Photo: IC

A gale-force wind that blasted Beijing and other cities in China's north on Sunday and Monday produced some amusing video clips from netizens who took the dangerous weather in their stride, awkward as they were. 

The Beijing Meteorological Service on Sunday issued a level 9 gale-force wind warning on Sina Weibo that predicted winds up to 80 kilometers per hour and alerting people not to linger under high-rise buildings or trees and be wary of wind-blown and falling objects.

Despite the dangerous conditions, many Chinese internet users ventured out and then posted humorous pictures and videos of their moment in the wind and its aftermath.

At a university in Xi'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, a netizen posted pictures of his university's front gate sign that had two of its gold Chinese characters blown away by the wind, leaving only the characters "Bei Da," the abbreviated name for Peking University. 

"The distance between my university [in Xi'an] and Peking University is a gust of wind," one commented.