{"id":15118,"date":"2022-08-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/styrkur-svifryks-har-vegna-sandfoks\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:20:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:20:49","slug":"high-concentration-of-airborne-dust-due-to-sandstorms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/styrkur-svifryks-har-vegna-sandfoks\/","title":{"rendered":"High concentration of particulate matter due to sandstorms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concentration of particulate matter in the capital region is high due to sandblasting from the sands of South Iceland.<\/p>\n<h4>The meters in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur are on Nor\u00f0urhellu and Hvaleyrarh\u00f3ll.&nbsp;<\/h4>\n<p>At midday today, the hourly particulate matter concentration at Nor\u00f0urhellu was 132.4 micrograms per cubic metre, but by one o'clock the value was 8.8 micrograms per cubic metre. At the measuring station on Hvaleyrarholti the reading was 5.2 micrograms per cubic metre at midday. The 24-hour health protection limit for particulate matter is 50 micrograms per cubic metre. It is not necessary for people to take any action.<br \/>\nspecial precautions on a day like this when the values are unusually high. However, those who are sensitive are advised to avoid<br \/>\nIt's very strenuous outdoors, and today isn't necessarily the best day for a run outside.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The concentration of particulate matter and other pollutants can be monitored on <a href=\"https:\/\/xn--loftgi-tua4f.is\/?zoomLevel=7&amp;lat=64.894972&amp;lng=-18.675028\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Air quality.is<\/a>. There you can see a map of measurement sites in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and elsewhere in the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Styrkur svifryks \u00e1 h\u00f6fu\u00f0borgarsv\u00e6\u00f0inu er h\u00e1r vegna sandfoks fr\u00e1 s\u00f6ndunum \u00e1 Su\u00f0urlandi. M\u00e6lar \u00ed Hafnarfir\u00f0i eru \u00e1 Nor\u00f0urhellu og Hvaleyrarholti&nbsp; \u00c1 h\u00e1degi \u00ed dag var klukkustundargildi svifryks vi\u00f0 \u00e1 Nor\u00f0urhellu 132,4 m\u00edkr\u00f3gr\u00f6mm \u00e1 r\u00fammetra en strax klukkan eitt var gildi\u00f0 8,8 m\u00edkr\u00f3gr\u00f6mm \u00e1 r\u00fammetra. \u00cd m\u00e6list\u00f6\u00f0 \u00e1 Hvaleyrarholti var gildi\u00f0 5,2 m\u00edkr\u00f3gr\u00f6mm \u00e1 r\u00fammetra \u00e1 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15118"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}