On the morning of December 13, many areas in Ho Chi Minh City were foggy and sunless. The thin fog covering the area from early morning has limited visibility, high-rise buildings are obscured, the air is humder and colder than in previous days. Many people on the streets clearly felt the gloomy weather.
According to records, the fog phenomenon appeared quite evenly in central districts and suburban areas such as Thu Duc ward, Binh Chanh ward...
According to the air monitoring application Air Visual (belonging to IQAir, which owns a large amount of aggregated data on air quality, headquartered in Switzerland), today's air quality in Ho Chi Minh City at 8am is at the sensitive threshold - 133. The measured PM2.5 fine dust concentration reached 49 μg/m3, 9.8 times higher than the annual PM2.5 guidance value of the World Health Organization (WHO).
In Thu Duc ward, the red alert level is - 164, this is an unhealthy threshold. The measured PM2.5 fine dust concentration reached 78 μg/m3.
The Southern Hydrometeorological Station said that the weather in the area today is cloudy, with showers and thunderstorms in some places. Northeast wind level 2-3. During thunderstorms, there is a possibility of tornadoes, lightning and strong gusts of wind.
