From Finistère to Seine-Maritime, pollution alert procedures were triggered on Saturday and Sunday by the prefectures, which ask motorists to reduce their speed by 20 km / h on 2x2 lanes. Three departments in Brittany (Finistère, Côte-d'Armor, Ille-et-Vilaine) and three Normandy departments (Manche, Calvados, Seine-Maritime) were affected Sunday by a pollution episode related to a high level of PM10 fine particles in the region. 'atmosphere.
Lowering the speed. Sunday morning, the prefecture of Finistere announced the maintenance of the alert procedure until Monday midnight. "Maintenance of predictions of deterioration of air quality: alert procedure maintained in Finistère, April 22, 2019, from 0 am to midnight.Maintenance of recommendations issued (Saturday), including the reduction of maximum speed on 2x2 lanes from 110 to 90 km / h, "she said on Twitter. Ditto in the Côtes-d'Armor where a pollution alert procedure has been activated since Saturday and "until further notice" due to a high level of PM10 fine particles, according to the prefecture.
Maintenance of predictions of deterioration of air quality: alert procedure maintained in Finistère, April 22, 2019, from 0:00 to midnight. Maintenance of the recommendations issued yesterday, including the reduction of maximum speed on 2x2 lanes from 110 to 90 km / h.
- Prefect of Finistère (@ Prefet29) 21 April 2019"Avoid going outside and playing sports". Ille-et-Vilaine was also affected. "Exceeding the threshold of information-recommendation PM10 fine particle is maintained today (Sunday) and tomorrow (Monday) in #IlleetVilaine.For vulnerable people avoid going outside and play sports," said the prefecture of Ille-et-Vilaine on Twitter. The pollution concerned in particular the agglomerations of the Channel coasts.
[#pollution] exceeding the information-recommendation PM10 threshold is maintained today and tomorrow in #IlleetVilaine. For vulnerable people avoid going outside and playing sports. more about
: @Air_Breizh
Pollution from the Northeast. Sunday morning, in Brest, Saint-Brieuc and Saint-Malo, the air quality index was 8 (bad to very bad), on a scale of 10, according to the observatory of the air quality Air Breizh. On the south coast, in Quimper, Lorient and Vannes the index was 6 (medium to mediocre), said Air Breizh. In Normandy, the situation is due in particular to an "increase in suspended particulate matter levels" in the three departments "due to the air masses coming from the North-East, since high particle concentrations were measured in these regions. days in the Hauts de France, said the air monitoring agency Atmo Normandy.