GEORGE TOWN, Aug 26 – Penangites woke up today with a hazy Air Pollutant Index (API) readings on the island and mainland at moderate level. The Malaysian Meteorological Department monitoring the station in Bayan Lepas and Butterworth had been showed the visibility level of Bayan Lepas was decreasing from 7km at 8am to 4km at 11am while the Butterworth was also decrease in the horizontal visibility level from 6km at 8am to 5km at 11am.
In the same time the Department of Environment online portal also showed that the API readings on its monitoring station in Seberang Jaya which having 2 recorded a constant of increase from 49 at 6am to 50 at 7am followed by 51 at 8am and 53 at 11am. Meanwhile, Universiti Sains Malaysia had been recorded an API of 47 at 11am, while in the reading was Perai 35 at 11am.
About 4pm, the API of Penang was still on a moderate level of 72 while during 5pm, the API of Seberang Jaya and Prai on the mainland were recorded at 76 and 51. In additional, Universiti Sains Malaysia had been recorded an API readings of 69. For the categorise for the air pollution level as good as from zero to 50, moderate was from 51 to 100, unhealthy was from 101 to 200, very unhealthy was from 201-300 and hazardous was from 301 and more.
