I almost always see a smog layer when flying over Taipei right through the year. Its not particularly clean at all. I have many pictures of this over the years.
My statement does not apply if one lives in Keelung or Ruifang.
I get where youâre coming from though, but Iâve experienced true blue skies in Taiwan (Kenting) and it gives me a sunburn in the time it takes to walk to 7-11 and back.
The air pollution in Kaohsiung has been absolutely gross yesterday and today. It was over AQI 170 yesterday and the air tasted like burnt rubber. I drive a scooter so I am getting even more crap in my lungs at ground level.
For weather experts out there: any ideas why the air quality has gotten so much worse today? The weatherâs been cold wet crap for about a week, but the air quality was good. Today, no real change in the weather, but itâs toxic out there.
Yup, itâs ugly now. Weird day: in the morning it was lovely. Even from Danshui I could see ascending levels of mountains to the south. But later in the morning, and since then, ugh.
I donât suppose I can blame more than 10% of this on all the baibai burning and fireworks?
I like using this site better. Thousands of citizen stations so you can compare to government numbers. Unlike the aqicn site, this displays raw pm2.5 values, not AQI; so use this calculator to compare.