Cough cough. Is that COVID-19 or are you just trying to breathe? It only takes looking up today to realize chances are that wintertime smog come to shroud Bangkok again.
The pollution this morning reached its worst levels since the beginning of the year, with measurement of particulates spiking to over 180 at monitoring sites as of 9am, raising Bangkok to be the world’s eighth-most polluted city by 10am.
Over the weekend, air quality measured a merely “unhealthy” 150 to 160 on IQ Air, despite the fact that many left the capital to enjoy the long weekend out of town.
One Twitterer showed their air quality detector registering smog in the Rama IX area at over 200.
@js100radio พระรามเก้า 41 ฝุ่นเยอะ pic.twitter.com/W7H25OmCFo
— Tui.. (@2611829135) December 14, 2020
Reacting decisively to the apocalyptic skies, pollution…
