
AI-generated summary
Roraima faces a prolonged dry period under an emergency situation due to drought and the effects of El Niño.
Smoke spread through the center of Boa Vista this Sunday (8). The air quality in the region was classified as "very poor".
Smoke was also observed in other parts of the capital. This is the second time in less than a week with air classified as bad.
The state is facing a dry period under an emergency situation. Roraima recorded 2,579 hot spots this year, a number 67.5% higher than last year's total.
Smoke spread through the center of Boa Vista this Sunday morning (8) and the air quality in the region was classified as "very bad", according to the Electronic Environmental Surveillance System (Selva) platform. The tool monitors the occurrence of fires and air quality in the Amazon region in real time.
The record comes amid an increase in the number of hot spots in Roraima. As of Saturday (7), the state had registered 151 outbreaks.
On a scale ranging from 0 to 160 µg/m3, the central region of Boa Vista reached 75.8 µg/m3. At 9:15 am, the index was 71.9 µg/m3, classified as "bad".
Understand: The unit µg/m³ indicates the concentration of polluting particles in each cubic meter of air. The higher the value, the greater the quantity of these particles in the atmosphere. Air quality is classified into five categories: good, moderate, bad, very bad and very bad.
A cloud of smoke was also observed in other parts of the capital, such as on Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes and Capitão Ene Garcez avenues, in addition to the Edileusa Lóz Viewpoint, in Parque do Rio Branco.
This is at least the second time in less than a week that the air quality in the center of Boa Vista has been classified as poor. On Wednesday (4), the index reached 55.2 µg/m³.
Roraima is facing a dry period, which should last until April, and is in an emergency situation due to drought and the effects of El Niño.
The state was eighth with the most hot spots between Friday (6) and Saturday (7), with 73 records, according to data from the Queimadas Program, from the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe).
Bonfim, a municipality located around 125 km from Boa Vista, also appears among the ten Brazilian cities with the most hot spots in the period, with 41 records until Saturday.
Since the beginning of this year, Roraima has recorded 2,579 hot spots. The number is 67.5% higher than the total recorded throughout last year, when 1,539 outbreaks were recorded.

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