PETALING JAYA: The country would see a higher reading of the Air Pollutant Index (API) due to transboundary haze from neighbouring Indonesia until Oct 4, warned climatologists.
This is due to the occurrence of El Nino and the positive Indian Ocean Dipole leading to drier weather than the past years, with experts warning that those who did not get to clear their land through open burning may do so with gusto this year.
“The rains will wash the particulates away, but the source is still there and the wind will blow in new particulates. It is predicted that the haze will continue until Oct 4 with some variation of concentration locally due to local influences. “Those who have respiratory and cardiovascular comorbidity, especially elderly and young children, have to be careful to try to stay indoor and cut down outdoor activities as the smallest of the particulates which have travelled far can enter the lungs.
“This condition can be compounded by this +IOD, which makes the dry condition even worse due to the effect of El Nino alone. This dry condition can trigger forest fires and transboundary haze,” said the former UKM chair of the Department of Earth Sciences and Environment. In addition, the climatologist warned that if we have typhoons in the Philippines and South China Sea in the next few weeks, it will cause the air masses to flow north to our country from Sumatra and Kalimantan.
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