Singapore air quality in unhealthy range with PSI of 102
By Daniel Tan, channelnewsasia.com | Posted: 07 October 2006 0939
hrs
SINGAPORE: Singapore's air quality is in the unhealthy range with
3-hour PSI of 102 on Saturday at 1pm.
The highest PSI reading for the year was 130 at 10am on Saturday
morning, and the all time high was 226 in 1997.
The 3-hours PSI first entered the unhealthy range at 8am on
Saturday morning, with a PSI reading of 101.
The latest satellite pictures showed there were 506 hotspots and
thick smoke haze in Sumatra, mainly in Riau, Jambi and South
Sumatra, and winds blowing in a southerly to southwesterly
direction had brought smoke haze from southern Sumatra to
Singapore.
NEA added that the prevailing winds are also transporting the smoke
haze towards the Malacca Straits and Peninsular Malaysia.
"The prevailing winds are transporting the smoke haze towards the
Malacca Straits, Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore," the agency
said.
The Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday also reported
unhealthy air levels, while flights were disrupted in the country's
Sarawak province on Borneo island.
A spokesman for Singapore's Changi Airport on Saturday said the
haze had not affected operations at the regional aviation
hub.
Hundreds of firefighters in Indonesian Borneo, aided by police and
volunteers, were Friday dousing illegal forest fires causing acrid
haze that blanketed western parts of the island, officials in the
neighbouring country said.
Indonesia's annual burn-off causes a haze that typically smothers
parts of Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand as well as Indonesia
itself.
The NEA advises people with existing heart or respiratory ailments
to reduce physical exertion and outdoor activity. - CNA /dt
