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Latest Weather and Haze Situation
Dry conditions prevailed over most parts of the ASEAN region today, except over the northern parts of Borneo and northeastern parts of the Mekong sub-region where isolated showers were observed. Heavy rainfall was also observed over the Philippines under the influence of Typhoon Bavi. Scattered hotspots were detected mainly in Kalimantan, while few to isolated hotspots were detected in Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands. Slight to moderate localised smoke plumes were observed to emanate from hotspots detected in West, Central and Southern Kalimantan, as well as the western and eastern parts of Java.
Weather and Haze Outlook
In the coming days, dry conditions are expected over most parts of the southern ASEAN region, except over the northern parts of Sumatra, the northeastern parts of Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia where showers are forecast. On the other hand, wet weather is still expected to persist over the northern ASEAN region. The hotspots and smoke haze situation may escalate in areas experiencing pro-longed periods of drier weather. The prevailing winds over the southern ASEAN region are forecast to blow from the southwest to south. The prevailing winds over the southern ASEAN region are expected be blow from the southwest to west.
- All maps are to be used solely for displaying meteorological/geophysical information, and not for any other purpose. All maps are not to scale and for illustrative purpose only.
- The hotspots depicted on the map are derived from the NOAA satellite and they represent locations with possible fires. Hotspots may go undetected due to cloudy conditions or incomplete satellite pass.
- At Alert Level 0 and Alert Level 1, the regional haze situation is updated once a day at 0900 UTC. The regional haze situation is updated more frequently at 0300 UTC and 0900 UTC upon activation of Alert Level 2 or Alert Level 3. Updates at 0300 UTC display hotspot information from night-time passes of the NOAA-20 satellite. Fewer hotspots were typically detected at night as fire activities usually peak during the day.
- Reprocessed satellite data will be availed at a later timing. The hotspot information derived from satellite data reprocessed may differ slightly from that received near real-time but reprocessing is necessary for better quality data.
- The 2500 ft winds (depicted by arrows) are model analysis winds.