What our forecast is based on right now: the chain that has to line up for haze to reach us.
Haze seen by satellite (darker = thicker)
Edge of noticeable haze
Cloud, no reading
Fires, last 2 days (bigger = more)
Wind, next 24 h (from where the air comes)
Singapore
Fires: 6,187 hotspots, grouped into ~50 km squares; satellite haze as of Wed 14 Oct · 13:00. ASMC draws a similar daily picture: regional haze map.
1
Fires upwind
Sumatra 1,321 hotspots, Kalimantan 4,756 in the last 2 days, down to 0.6× the 2 days before.
High
2
Wind toward us
Blowing from Kalimantan's direction 71% of the next 48 h (ECMWF, ~800 m up).
Yes
3
Rain on the way?
NEA forecasts no rain in the next 24 h.
Unlikely
4
Nearby stations
Batam 172 µg/m³ · Pasir Gudang API 181 · Johor Bahru API 173 · Melaka API 167. Batam is upwind of us; the Malaysian stations show how wide the haze is.
Steady
OUR FORECAST · Wed 14 Oct · 15:54 High now — fires in Kalimantan, wind from Kalimantan, little rain expected. Likely to stay Elevated or worse through the next 48 h.
Sources: fires NASA FIRMS (VIIRS), last seen Wed 14 Oct · 03:02; wind ECMWF (via Open-Meteo); rain forecast NEA; nearby stations APIMS Malaysia (Johor, Melaka) and OpenAQ (Batam); readings NEA. The fire and wind steps describe the whole region, so they are the same for every part of Singapore. How the forecast works