Ho Chi Minh City is covered in fog again, welcoming a new unseasonal rain

TPO - On the morning of February 19, many places in Ho Chi Minh City continued to be covered in fog and had light showers, with fine dust concentrations exceeding the permissible threshold many times.

TPO - On the morning of February 19, many places in Ho Chi Minh City continued to be covered in fog and had light showers, with fine dust concentrations exceeding the permissible threshold many times.

On the morning of February 19, the weather in Ho Chi Minh City is cool, with the lowest temperature around 23-25 ​​degrees Celsius, cloudy, weak sunshine, light rain and fog appearing in many places.

According to the reporter's records, fog appeared a lot in the city center and some neighboring districts. Many high-rise buildings "disappeared" behind the white fog.

Many places in Ho Chi Minh City experienced fog and light showers on the morning of February 19.

According to the air monitoring application Air Visual (belonging to IQAir, which owns a large amount of aggregated data on air quality and is headquartered in Switzerland), since the morning of February 19, many areas in Ho Chi Minh City have had air quality measurement points that are not good for health.

Specifically, according to the Air Visual application, the concentration of PM 2.5 fine dust (PM2.5 fine dust is particulate matter floating in the air with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or smaller) in Ho Chi Minh City at 9:30 a.m. on February 19 was 53 µg/m³ (the allowable level is about 5 µg/m³). The photo was taken in the area of ​​Vo Van Kiet Street (District 5).

Air Visual said that the concentration of fine dust PM 2.5 in Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of February 19 was 10.6 times higher than the value according to WHO's annual air quality guidelines.

Many high-rise buildings in Ho Chi Minh City are hidden behind a layer of fog.

The Meteorological Agency forecasts that Ho Chi Minh City and the southern provinces and cities will continue to have unseasonal rain in the coming days.

According to the Southern Hydrometeorological Station, today (February 19), Ho Chi Minh City continues to experience unseasonal rain. Areas with a probability of about 60% of unseasonal rain are Nha Be, Binh Chanh, Hoc Mon, Cu Chi, Binh Tan districts, District 7, etc. The unseasonal rain in Ho Chi Minh City is forecast to last from February 19-24.

The cause of unseasonal rain in the Southern region (including Ho Chi Minh City) is due to developing convective clouds. In particular, the provinces in the Southeast region are likely to have showers in the afternoon and evening.

Huu Huy - Ngoc Lam

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