Melaka haze today: air quality and PM2.5 forecast

Friday 9 October: the CAMS global model forecasts a daily mean of 100 µg/m³ PM2.5 for Melaka today, above the WHO interim target 1 (75 µg/m³); the highest of the next days is 100 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 Melaka: 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 Melaka

Melaka faces Sumatra across the narrowest part of the Strait of Malacca, opposite the Indonesian province of Riau, where many of the peat fires behind the haze burn. When the southwest monsoon blows, Melaka and its neighbours are among the first places on the peninsula to be hit. In June 2013 the town of Muar, just south of Melaka across the Johor border, recorded an Air Pollutant Index of 746 and a state of emergency was declared there, one of the highest readings ever recorded in Malaysia.

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.