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Unseasonal, poor air high quality has descended on Bangkok and surrounding suburbs threatening people’s well being. The downside, which filled the headlines at the finish of last yr, has returned to elements of the capital over the weekend.
Readings up to 233 have been recorded this morning, nicely in excess of the 50 micrograms per cubic metre safety level. That means that the general air quality is now ‘very unhealthy’ (chart below).
The Pollution Control Department attributes the worsening air quality to a large excessive stress cell, which is covering most components of the nation. The massive cell is robbing the centre of Thailand of winds to blow away the native smog. The similar climate sample has brought ‘high season’ weather to the south of Thailand with largely north-easterly airflows changing the seasonal south-west monsoon.
Odd advises babies, pregnant women, the aged and ailing folks to remain indoors or to wear proper face masks if they have to leave their homes.
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The prolonged haze downside affected Bangkok and its neighbouring provinces, such as Samut Prakan, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi and Samut Sakhon, for several months late last yr. Many folks have been pressured to wear face masks when they were outdoors and faculties had been ordered closed for a number of days by the Ministry of Education as the extent of PM2.5 far exceeded the 50-micron degree, as set by the World Health Organisation.
At the height of the haze problem, ineffective water cannons were deployed to try to eliminate the fine dust particles and a fleet of plane conducted cloud-seeding operations to ease the air pollution drawback..