Your nose and eyes are right
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| Good Air , can see all the way to Genting Highlands in the hills background from Kepong |
BY TRINNA LEONG JUNE 27, 2013
Malaysians returned from lunch today with their reliable nose index telling them what the figures have confirmed this morning, that the worst of the haze is over for now, though not before it claimed two lives in Johor.
The smoke that rolled over the peninsula from the weekend has mostly shifted north out of the country.
The readings on the haze are now good to moderate in most parts of the nation.
Muar took the brunt of it over the weekend with a spike of 746 and it was there that the two died from breathing respiratory-related illnesses on Monday.
Today, only three areas of the nation reported unhealthy levels at 7am Just two days, there were 25.
Locations with unhealthy API readings are; the district of Banting in Selangor (104), Nilai in Negeri Sembilan (144) and Bukit Rambai in Malacca (111).
This morning’s 7am API readings show 16 locations with APIs below 51, most of which are situated in Borneo and the northern states in Peninsular Malaysia.
On Tuesday morning, only one area had an API that was ‘good’. Port Klang, the country’s busiest port, saw a continuous drop in its API to a moderate 73.
Meanwhile, Kuala Lumpur’s API is at 77 with the air in the states of Perak and Johor hovering between ‘good’ and ‘moderate’ API levels.
Districts that were previously charting high APIs have significant improvements with the API readings after periodic rainfall in the last two days cleansed the air.
Forest fires in Sumatra that have been causing the thick smog in Malaysia and Singapore are also being tackled by 5,300 disaster personnel sent by the Indonesian government. - June 27, 2013.
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