Strong Smog Over Minsk
- 8.09.2024, 19:44
There is smoke in the city.
“Why is there so much smoke outside?” "Maybe someone knows what is burning?", residents of the Minsk microdistrict of Sukharava write in one of the district chats. There is no official information yet, according to observations, air quality in some areas has really deteriorated. Zerkalo tells what is known currently.
Internet users from Sukharava city district are actively discussing the problem of air quality. Some speculate that the cause may be a fire. One of the participants of the chat in the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported that a house was burning in the area and rescuers were working.
However, the smoke was noticed in another part of the city.
"In the area of Navinki, too, a strong smog," wrote one of the users.
"Yesterday morning it was the same, the smell of burning and 'fog'," another chat participant wrote.
There is no information on the website of the Minsk City Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations about the fire in this area. Belhydromet weather agency regularly publishes information on the state of atmospheric air in different parts of Belarus. The latest data by this time is as of September 6, at that time there were no problems with air in Minsk.
Information on real-time air quality is published by the World's Air Pollution website. It receives information from sensors in different cities around the world and immediately calculates the pollution index.
According to this resource, there is indeed a problem with air in Minsk. The sensor on Belski Street showed the level of pollution 143, which on the scale of this site is characterized as "unhealthy".
Air quality in the area began to deteriorate sharply on the morning of September 8, according to World's Air Pollution.
Sensors installed on the streets of Kaltsou and Kalinouski showed indices 116 and 129. According to the scale of the site creators, this level is characterized as “unhealthy for sensitive groups”. According to the history of the resource, air problems in the area began on the morning of September 7 and continue on September 8.
The AirMQ project also publishes real-time air quality monitoring. The description says that it was created by a group of technical enthusiasts and environmentalists.
According to the online map, in several districts of Minsk, concentrations of PM2.5 particles in the air have reached harmful values. The worst situation is in Sukharava and Ratomka. There are also problems with air in Zhdanovichy, Brylevichy and Miadzvezhyna.