Bad news
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008Today 27 May 2008 Beijing’s API is 463, the worst of this year so far.
People often ask me if i think the situation is getting any better, but unfortunately i don’t think it is. Let’s look at the numbers for this year, keeping in mind that the yearly average API over the last years was nearly constant, around 100.
Average API jan-may 2008: 99.5 (so not better or worse than previous years)
Average API jan 2008: 83
Average API feb 2008: 73
Average API mar 2008: 109
Average API apr 2008: 103
Average API may 2008: 131 (until 27th)
So as described below, the months of January and February gave us some hope that the situation was improving, but April and May are showing us that’s too optimistic.
I used to collect the daily API values from the MEP/SEPA website, but it seems their list function at the bottom of the page is not working anymore, what a pity (or can somebody tell me what i am doing wrong?). So i had to go to the Beijing EPB website and manually retrieve all daily values… below a sample of today, showing several stations went off the scale.
Apologies for not posting recently and not answering comments/questions, busy here with newborn baby!