00:00Some places in Metro Manila were covered with fog earlier.
00:04But that's not all, because the wind is still blowing.
00:08Let's find out what happened to Dano Tinkongco.
00:15This part of Makati was almost unrecognizable this morning.
00:20It's the same in some places in Metro Manila.
00:22Is it foggy or foggy because of the upcoming Christmas?
00:26Not yet.
00:28According to what we saw in the video of the situation earlier,
00:32it's not foggy or foggy and foggy,
00:36but haze or pollution trapped in the wind
00:39that happened in Metro Manila before.
00:41Based on our upper air data,
00:43we had a thermal inversion this morning.
00:46So this means that our air is a bit hotter
00:50on a higher level of air.
00:53So 500 meters to be exact,
00:55the temperature is a bit higher
00:58compared to the temperature of the wind here at the lower surface level.
01:02And as a result, what happens is
01:04the air pollutants are trapped here on the ground.
01:08Supposedly, the wind here on the ground, on the surface,
01:12should be hotter.
01:15And then as you go higher, it should get colder.
01:18This has something to do with the end of the long wind
01:21or the wind coming from the northern part of the country.
01:25In this transition period before the Christmas,
01:28there is no or only a little wind in Luzon and Visayas,
01:31particularly in Metro Manila.
01:33That's why there is little or almost no wind
01:36that pushes smoke and pollution away.
01:38The result is haze, like what we experienced earlier.
01:42This usually happens when the wind is calm.
01:45Like now here in NCR,
01:47there is no strong wind that drives heat
01:51to our land.
01:52So the tendency is that the wind here at the lower surface
01:56gets colder
01:59compared to the wind at the upper surface.
02:02So what happens is that it gets trapped.
02:04It doesn't rise.
02:05It doesn't evaporate.
02:07According to the forecast,
02:08the haze usually disappears within 24 hours
02:11as long as the wind gets stronger.
02:13Following the transition,
02:15it is also expected that
02:16it will be possible on the second week of October
02:19until the second or third week of November.
02:24For GMA Integrated News,
02:25let's go to Kunko Nakatuto at 24 hours.
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