UPDATED @ 08:01:17 PM 23-06-2013
June 23, 2013
Dry as well as bright continue is hampering Malaysia's efforts for cloud-seeding to overcome thick smoke in a Muar as well as Ledang districts, as well as has stirred a government to shut schools in influenced areas.
Natural Resources as well as Environment Minister Datuk Seri G. Palanivel pronounced schools in Kuala Lumpur as well as Selangor will be sealed tomorrow. Other states that have ordered schools close embody Malacca, Johor as well as Pahang.
"The mist incident was worsening as of 5pm as well as a schools have been ordered to be sealed as a precautionary measure given a bad air quality will start a health of students," Palanivel pronounced in a statement in Kuala Lumpur today.
He additionally advised relatives to keep their children indoors as well as use facemasks if they needed to go out.
In another development, Department of Environment (DOE) director-general Datuk Halimah Hassan pronounced currently cloud-seeding could be finished in a few days depending upon continue conditions.
Meteorological Department director-general Che Gayah Ismail pronounced bright as well as dry conditions, as well as with a pleasant charge Bebinca (Fabian) coming a South China Sea as well as clever winds from a south west have been bringing haze, making it formidable for a cloud seeding process.
Che Gayah pronounced as a Fabian charge approaching to finish tomorrow, she expectedthe continue to urge with some sleet to revoke a mist in a country.
The stream dry continue due to a southwest monsoon is approaching to finish in September, she said.
The DOE reported that a Air Pollutant Index (API) celebration of a mass in Muar, that has been spoken an emergency area, recorded a slight dump with a celebration of a mass of 690 at 11am today, from 746 4 hours earlier. It then went down to 507 at 5pm today.
The API readings for Melaka City as well as Bukit Rambai in Melaka, that progressing r! ecorded hazardous levels of 357 as well as 334 respectively, soared to 415 as well as 428 at 11am. At 5pm, Melaka City went down to 373 while Bukit Rambai shot up further to 443.
States that have registered diseased API readings embody a sovereign capital, Putrajaya, Selangor, Pahang, Negeri Sembilan as well as Johor. The dual areas categorised as carrying good air quality have been Sandakan as well as Tawau in Sabah. In Kuala Lumpur, a API celebration of a mass was 140 at a Batu Muda station, 134 at a Cheras hire as well as 138 in Putrajaya at 5pm.
The DOE additionally pronounced a series of hot spots detected in Sumatra around heavenly body NOAA-18 yesterday rose roughly dual overlay to 118 from 64 upon Friday.
It pronounced a Asean Specialised Meteorological Centre (ASMC) in Singapore reported that a mist was becoming thicker from fires in Riau Province, Sumatera Tengah, Indonesia.
The DOE additionally pronounced winds blowing from a southwest had carried mist from Riau to a central as well as southern part of a west seashore of Peninsular Malaysia. - June 23, 2013
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