Masks On: Bangkok's Mystery 'Fog' Is Heavy Smog

[snoop1130]

Masks On: Bangkok's Mystery 'Fog' Is Heavy Smog

By Chayanit Itthipongmaetee, Staff Reporter

 

 

BANGKOK — Don’t be fooled by the grey mass obscuring the city these past few days. It’s not fog.

 

Children, seniors and people with asthma and respiratory diseases were advised Wednesday to wear masks when the step outside, as parts of metropolitan Bangkok are suffering from unsafe air quality due to an accumulation of smog.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/bangkok/2018/01/24/masks-bangkoks-mystery-fog-heavy-smog/

 

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[snoop1130]

Bangkok air quality ‘extremely unhealthy’ since Saturday

By Pratch Rujivanarom 
The Nation

 

 

The air quality in Bangkok has been extremely unhealthy throughout the week, with the level of particles sized at equal to or smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) reached over 200 micrograms per cubic metre of air.

 

This is according to the air-quality monitoring website,aqicn.org, which revealed that the Air Quality Index (AQI) gathered by the Pollution Control Department on Wednesday showed that the level of PM2.5 in Bangkok has been well beyond the safe average since Saturday. It also forecast that air quality would remain low throughout the week.

 

As of Wednesday morning, the website showed that PM2.5 measurement in Bangkok reached the level of 174 micrograms at the monitoring station in the Public Relations Department. 

 

The five-day record showed that the highest level of PM2.5 at this station was 213 micrograms in Monday morning.

 

According to Thai standards, the safe level of PM2.5 is 50 micrograms, but the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended daily average level of PM2.5 is 25 micrograms.

 

Smog has covered Bangkok throughout the week, greatly lowering visibility. 

 

According to an earlier Greenpeace report, Bangkok ranked second on the list of Thai cities that suffered the most from air pollution in 2017. Heavy traffic in the city is regarded as the major reason for bad air quality.

 

The annual average of PM2.5 level of Bangkok in 2017 was 31 micrograms, which is far higher than the WHO-recommended yearly average of 10 micrograms.

 

Disease Control Department warned that the size of the particulate matter was so small that it could pass through lungs into the blood. PM2.5 was proven to cause many diseases, such as heart disease, respiratory diseases, allergies, and eye and skin irritation.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30337074

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-1-24

[Henrik Andersen]

41 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

Bangkok air quality ‘extremely unhealthy’ since Saturday

By Pratch Rujivanarom 
The Nation

 

 

The air quality in Bangkok has been extremely unhealthy throughout the week, with the level of particles sized at equal to or smaller than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) reached over 200 micrograms per cubic metre of air.

 

This is according to the air-quality monitoring website,aqicn.org, which revealed that the Air Quality Index (AQI) gathered by the Pollution Control Department on Wednesday showed that the level of PM2.5 in Bangkok has been well beyond the safe average since Saturday. It also forecast that air quality would remain low throughout the week.

 

As of Wednesday morning, the website showed that PM2.5 measurement in Bangkok reached the level of 174 micrograms at the monitoring station in the Public Relations Department. 

 

The five-day record showed that the highest level of PM2.5 at this station was 213 micrograms in Monday morning.

 

According to Thai standards, the safe level of PM2.5 is 50 micrograms, but the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended daily average level of PM2.5 is 25 micrograms.

 

Smog has covered Bangkok throughout the week, greatly lowering visibility. 

 

According to an earlier Greenpeace report, Bangkok ranked second on the list of Thai cities that suffered the most from air pollution in 2017. Heavy traffic in the city is regarded as the major reason for bad air quality.

 

The annual average of PM2.5 level of Bangkok in 2017 was 31 micrograms, which is far higher than the WHO-recommended yearly average of 10 micrograms.

 

Disease Control Department warned that the size of the particulate matter was so small that it could pass through lungs into the blood. PM2.5 was proven to cause many diseases, such as heart disease, respiratory diseases, allergies, and eye and skin irritation.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30337074

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2018-1-24

Thailand is just a unhealthy place to visit or live in and it is not only Bkk here in Pattaya too 

Stop smoking guys we tourists make the air bad ???

[johng]

6 minutes ago, Henrik Andersen said:

Stop smoking guys we tourists make the air bad

LOL  yeah right  not to mention the millions of vehicles, heavy industries on the eastern seaboard

and crop burning...those pesky foreign tourist "smokers" caused it all 

[johng]

56 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

This is according to the air-quality monitoring website,aqicn.org, which revealed that the Air Quality Index (AQI) gathered by the Pollution Control Department on Wednesday showed that the level of PM2.5 in Bangkok has been well beyond the safe average since Saturday

The solution of course is to turn off those pesky air monitoring websites..then everything will be glorious.

[NCC1701A]

Thailand is for the most part filthy.

 

Some days the air looks just like the photo here in Hua Hin.

 

It took 20 years for California to turn the smog problem around using strict enforcement of very tough laws, not only for cars, but for every source of air pollution, including restaurants.

 

so it will not happen here.

Edited January 24, 2018 by NCC1701A

[Briggsy]

I recently visited Hong Kong. During my stay there, I didn't notice one vehicle belching out black smoke.

 

Here they are commonplace. I believe it is a fashion amongst modified pick-ups. Unfortunately I and everyone else has to breathe that crap.

 

Other locations show it is an easy problem to solve and will assist in reducing air pollution.

[mok199]

''Bad air since saturday''..that's funny

1 hour ago, Briggsy said:

I recently visited Hong Kong. During my stay there, I didn't notice one vehicle belching out black smoke.

 

Here they are commonplace. I believe it is a fashion amongst modified pick-ups. Unfortunately I and everyone else has to breathe that crap.

 

Other locations show it is an easy problem to solve and will assist in reducing air pollution.

here in Pattaya we have the filthy tour buses,belching out smoke and dust...everyother country on this planet is taking steps to slove the pollution problem ..Thailand taking steps to make it worse...BUT WHERE THERE IS SMOKE ,THERE IS MONEY...or something like that...

[Henrik Andersen]

1 hour ago, johng said:

LOL  yeah right  not to mention the millions of vehicles, heavy industries on the eastern seaboard

and crop burning...those pesky foreign tourist "smokers" caused it all 

I hope you can I am joking about smoking  na

[Jonmarleesco]

26 minutes ago, mok199 said:

''Bad air since saturday''..that's funny

here in Pattaya we have the filthy tour buses,belching out smoke and dust...everyother country on this planet is taking steps to slove the pollution problem ..Thailand taking steps to make it worse...BUT WHERE THERE IS SMOKE ,THERE IS MONEY...or something like that...

Where there's muck, there's brass. Sounds just about right. 

[Jonmarleesco]

1 hour ago, Briggsy said:

I recently visited Hong Kong. During my stay there, I didn't notice one vehicle belching out black smoke.

 

Here they are commonplace. I believe it is a fashion amongst modified pick-ups. Unfortunately I and everyone else has to breathe that crap.

 

Other locations show it is an easy problem to solve and will assist in reducing air pollution.

The non-airconditioned buses spew out soot-filtered smoke all day long. Will the BMA and the DLT take action? Will they hell! 

[Thunder26]

Not only the cars that cause pollution. Thais like burning stuff all the time. If you are in a skyscraper you can easily see spots of smoke all around at any time!

[Thunder26]

I would like to add that there is no quality control about what comes from all the vehicles that drive around. There is so much pollution coming from vehicles and nobody cares. Luckily there is some rain in some parts of Bangkok that clean this pollution, otherwise it would've been a very hazardous place to live in.

Edited January 24, 2018 by Thunder26

[johng]

I hope you can I am joking about smoking  na

Yes I did think you where joking [emoji106]

[toofarnorth]

Our bikes and 12 yo Vios get tested and taxed every year and both car and older scooter get a magic wand shoved up the exhaust. Too much smoke and not allowed on the road.

Many times I have said to Pim    ' Look  at the smoke from that vehicle , it is on the road illegally , how easy for a cop to pull it over , big fine vehicle of the road '.

Even easier with worn out scooters . But of course it would men those with the power to do things would have to get off thier butts.  Rant over time for lunch.

[Sir Dude]

"Masks on"...pfft, those surgical masks do nothing in this sort of situation. Mainly they are for stopping you spreading anything to others when you have the flu etc. or for a doctor and his team performing an operation so they don't infect the patient when they open them up.