Kuantan haze today: air quality and PM2.5 forecast

Friday 9 October: the CAMS global model forecasts a daily mean of 56.6 µg/m³ PM2.5 for Kuantan today, above the WHO 24-hour guideline of 15 µg/m³; the highest of the next days is 56.6 µg/m³. These are model values. For the official Air Pollutant Index (API) see APIMS (Department of Environment Malaysia, live Air Pollutant Index, API). SkyPollen does not yet have a pollen level for Kuantan: no pollen forecast exists for Malaysia.

Forecast bars: daily mean PM2.5 from the Copernicus CAMS global model, as computed, against 150 µg/m³. Green is within the WHO 24-hour guideline (15 µg/m³), amber above it, red above the WHO interim target 1 (75 µg/m³). Model values, not monitor readings.

Haze and allergy in Kuantan

Kuantan, the capital of Pahang, is on the east coast facing the South China Sea, on the far side of the Titiwangsa range from the Strait of Malacca, so transboundary haze usually reaches it later and thinner than the west coast. From November to March the northeast monsoon brings heavy rain that keeps the air clean. Kuantan has had its own dust problem too: in 2015 and early 2016 red dust from bauxite mining and stockpiles coloured roads, rivers and the sea around the city, and a moratorium on bauxite mining was imposed in January 2016.

Read haze and dust mite allergy for what helps on hazy days and at home.

Other cities

• Kuala Lumpur
  PM2.5 104.8 µg/m³
• Melaka
  PM2.5 100 µg/m³
• Johor Bahru
  PM2.5 90.9 µg/m³
• Shah Alam
  PM2.5 85.9 µg/m³
• Singapore
  PM2.5 81.6 µg/m³
• Ipoh
  PM2.5 61.5 µg/m³
• Kuantan
  PM2.5 56.6 µg/m³
• Kuching
  PM2.5 39.6 µg/m³
• Penang
  PM2.5 20 µg/m³
• Miri
  PM2.5 15.8 µg/m³

Today's daily mean PM2.5 by city, CAMS global model (Copernicus), as computed. Model values, not monitor readings.

Copernicus CAMS global forecast run of 9 October at 08:00 GMT+8, shown as computed. Malaysia's official readings are published by the Department of Environment on APIMS (Department of Environment Malaysia, live Air Pollutant Index, API); SkyPollen links to them and does not reproduce them.