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Dry weather prevailed over the Mekong Sub-region, with the exception of isolated showers ver parts of Thailand. Based on the latest Himawari-8 satellite images between 0710 and 0820UTC on 11 February 2019, widespread smoke haze from persistent hotspots continued to affect many parts of the Mekong sub-region, including Cambodia, Lao PDR, southern Myanmar, Thailand and central Viet Nam. In particular, dense smoke haze was observed in southwest Cambodia, and northern and northeastern Thailand. In addition, isolated hotspots with localised smoke plumes were also detected in northern Myanmar and southern Viet Nam. The hazy conditions are expected to persist over the Mekong sub-region under the prevailing dry weather. A gradual strengthening of northeasterly and easterly winds in the next few days is expected to blow the smoke haze westward. |
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February 12, 2019
