Preparing for Adverse Weather Conditions

Adverse meteorological conditions are a short-term combination of meteorological factors (calm, light wind, wind of an unfavorable direction, fog, inversion), which contribute to the accumulation of harmful substances in the surface layer of atmospheric air.

During adverse weather conditions (NMU), for example, during the absence of wind, pollutants do not disperse in the atmosphere, but accumulate in one place and exceed the maximum permissible concentration. Therefore, during the notification of the enterprise about adverse weather conditions, it should reduce its emissions into the atmosphere.

Who needs it?

Upon receipt of forecasts of adverse meteorological conditions, legal entities and individual entrepreneurs with sources of emissions of harmful substances into the air are required to take measures to reduce emissions of harmful substances into the air, agreed with the executive authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation authorized to carry out regional state environmental monitoring. (Art. 19 p. 3 FZ-96)