The Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (CAMe) activated Phase 1 of the atmospheric environmental contingency due to ozone in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico, so that on Wednesday, June 8, restrictions on vehicle circulation will be implemented in Mexico City and the State of Mexico.
Around 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, June 7, the CAMe warned that in most of Mexico City and the metropolitan area, the air quality was detected to be “bad” to “very bad”, an hour later, the agency activated the contingency.
The Commission explained that at 5:00 p.m., a maximum ozone concentration of 156 ppb was recorded at the Santa Fe monitoring station of the mayor’s office. Alvaro Obregon From Mexico City.
The agency attributed these environmental conditions to a high pressure center near the Metropolitan area that intensified in the afternoon, “which increased atmospheric stability throughout the day today, combined with the high temperatures recorded up to 30 oC, intense solar radiation, weak wind with continuous transport of ozone towards the southwestern part of the Mexico’s valley”.
“The Mexico City Atmospheric Monitoring System forecasts for tomorrow (Wednesday, June 8) conditions of moderate stability until the early hours of the afternoon, so it expects to have poor air quality due to ozone during the afternoon. “, detailed the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis in a statement issued at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Today does not circulate
The vehicles that must suspend its circulation from 5:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. Wednesday June 8 are:
- Vehicles for private use with hologram of verification 2.
- Vehicles for private use with hologram of type 1 verification whose numerical digit is 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9; and those whose registration is made up only of letters.
- Vehicles for private use with verification hologram “0” Y “00”gummed redtermination of plates 3 and 4.
- vehicles that do not carry verification hologramsuch as old, demonstration or transfer cars, new ones, those with a tourist pass, foreign license plates or with plates formed with letters, the same restriction applies to them as to vehicles that carry a hologram two.
- Restriction to the circulation of 50% of the units that transport liquefied gas of petroleum (LP) to stationary tanks that do not have a dry disconnection valve, whose registration is non.
- Local or federal cargo vehicles They stop circulating between 6:00 and 10:00 a.m., with the exception of those that are in the Self-Regulation Program of the CDMX or the State of Mexico.
The Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis recommended that the population avoid carrying out civic, cultural and recreational activities outdoors, as well as exercising outdoors between 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
The agency explained that at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, a bulletin will be issued reporting the prevailing weather conditions in the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico.
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