[News] Authorities decree environmental alert for this Sunday in the Metropolitan Region

[FNX Magokiler]

With this measure, it is prohibited to use wood heaters, as well as to carry out agricultural burning in the capital. The vehicle restriction will not run for tomorrow.

This Saturday, the authorities of the Metropolitan Region declared a preventive environmental alert for this Sunday, June 19, in the Metropolitan Region.

With this, the Presidential Delegation of the RM called on the inhabitants of Greater Santiago not to use wood heaters and to prefer the use of public or shared transport. Likewise, agricultural burning will be prohibited. To comply with the measures, "the Health Seremi of the RM, together with the municipalities and Carabineros de Chile, will supervise the non-use of firewood, while the Agriculture Seremi will do the same with the SAG and CONAF inspectors regarding of Agricultural Burning".

This measure was decreed due to the fact that adverse ventilation conditions continued in the Santiago basin during this day: "At 3:00 p.m. today, June 18, the Cerro Navia Station reached an ICAP of 200, with which confirmed Environmental Alert by PM2.5 declared preventively for this Saturday.

 

 

At 3:00 p.m. it was followed by the Pudahuel Station (ICAP 200), Air Quality conditions that remain until this time, "said a statement.

The rest of the stations of the Monitoring Network of the Ministry of the Environment remained at regular levels, except for the Las Condes station, which marked levels of Good. "Regarding meteorological factors, today an anticyclonic regime was observed on the surface and a dorsal passage in height with extreme temperatures of -0.8°C (Pudahuel 07:59 hours) and 16.7°C (Pudahuel 02:57 hours). )," authorities said. For this Sunday, the Chilean Meteorological Directorate forecasts an anticyclonic surface regime for the capital with temperatures that will range between a minimum of -0.8°C (Pudahuel 07:59) and a maximum of 16.7°C (Pudahuel, 14 :57 hours). It should be remembered that vehicle restriction measures do not apply during weekends.

 

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