In case you were wondering why you had some trouble sleeping yesterday, it’s probably because the one-hour PM2.5 (particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers) reading almost breached the 500 mark throughout the dead of the night.
The city-state was hit particularly hard by the ongoing haze yesterday, especially for those residing in the southern and western ends of the island. Just take a gander at the No Bullshit PSI reading recorded at midnight.
Better get used to more occurrences like these — a Greenpeace representative told Coconuts Media that this year’s haze crisis could last at least until December. Other analysts and industry officials have even gone so far as to estimate that our smoggy conditions will last until early 2016 due to Indonesia’s failure to put out the forest fires.
Expanding hot spots plus the El Nino dry conditions may continue to hinder efforts to stamp out the inferno, so buckle up and keep those N95 masks handy.
EDIT: Dang, we mistook PM2.5 readings as the PSI levels. We’ve amended the article to reflect the correction.
