A pollution alert is triggered in the 6 departments of the Center Val-de-Loire region. In one of its bulletins Lig’Air, which monitors air quality, indicates that the quality is level 4 (bad), on a scale that goes up to 6 (extremely bad). This episode of fine particle pollution has several explanations: the weather conditions with temperatures of 20 degrees for three days, but also the heating which continues to run because it is cold in the morning and evening. Road traffic and agricultural activity are also involved. The Loiret prefecture in a press release on its website advises motorists to slow their speed to 90km/h on dual carriageways and 110 km/h on motorways.
Alert by persistence
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The air quality is deteriorating according to Lig’Air, the alert for Loiret and Eure-et-Loir was extended this Friday March 25 to Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire and at Dear. The Air Quality Monitoring Association states that “an overrun of the information and recommendation threshold for PM10 suspended particles is planned for 03/25/2022 in Loiret, Cher, Eure-et-Loir, Indre-et-Loire and Loir- and-Cher. A persistence alert is triggered in the Loiret“According to these specialists, the phenomenon affects other countries of continental Europe, it arrived by the North of France then the Paris basin and it will accompany us until the end of the week.