Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/10/29
By: Wu Hsin-yun and S.C. Chang
Taipei, Oct. 29 (CNA) A new wave of air pollutants could hit Taiwan Monday, as a
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high density of PM2.5 of over 150 micrograms per cubic meter was detected in China’s Shanghai area Sunday afternoon, an environmental official said that day.
Chang Shun-chin (張順欽), director of the Environmental Protection Administration’s (EPA’s) Department of Environmental Monitoring and Information Management, said that the seasonal northeasterly winds could bring PM2.5 levels of 70-90 mg/m3 over Taiwan, which usually suffers from bad air quality caused by foreign sources from October to April of the following year.
Chang said that the upcoming wave of dirty air will not last long, beginning at around 3 a.m. Monday with a PM2.5 concentration of 70-90 mg/m3. He predicted that the fine particulate matter concentration will decline in northern Taiwan in the afternoon, but will rise in central and southern Taiwan because of a lack of conditions for air dispersal. [FULL STORY]