While the northern hemisphere is experiencing chilly fall weather, Singapore is plagued with blazing heat.

Many would even joke about how Singapore has 4 seasons—SO HOT, HOT, RAIN LIKE CRAZY AND THE PESKY HAZE.

Now we can add one more to the list liao.

Strange haze-looking pungent air.

Here are 10 facts about this pungent phenomenon.

1. Reports of strange burning smell was reported by netizens

According to The Straits Times, many readers started writing in to them of a “burning”, “chemical” or “petrol” smell, as early as 4 pm yesterday.

2. What is it

Some said it was some sort of fog.

Some said it smells like a gas leak.

Some believe it was the haze season.

 Some were just plain funny!

3. Where are the affected areas

It was said that it started in the northern areas such as Seletar, Sengkang and the infamous Yishun.

The smell progressed to central areas like Bishan and Ang Mo Kio by 6 pm and by 8 pm residents from Clementi and Bukit Timah felt…oops… I mean smelt it.

4. It’s just the wind, according to NEA

After their investigations, this is what they said:

If you can’t read it.

The TL;DR: NEA knows there is a smell in the Northeast and they’ve sent officers to the site to investigate.

They guessed it could be a convergence of winds in the northern half of Singapore which led to a rojak of smell within the area.

There’s light at the end of the tunnel because at night, there’ll be winds coming from the south or southeast to disperse the smell.

They’ll continue to monitor the area because we only have one giant fan (read: Singapore Flyer) in the central area.

5. It’s not toxic chemicals in the air

And the NEA isn’t the only experts keeping an eye out.

In case you didn’t know, several Singaporeans complained about how the smell actually gave them headaches. That or choke them.

You can always count on Singapore’s defence team, much reliable than our train services, to say the least.

If you can’t read it.

TL;DR: Don’t worry, it’s not toxic industrial chemicals. We’ll still keep a lookout.

And since the Singapore government had drills for chemical attacks a few years back…any paranoia is understandable.

6. Singaporeans are not happy with the investigations as usual

After NEA and SCDF posted their investigations, Singaporeans are not pleased.

Someone called NEA out on giving the standard template answer every. Single. Time.

Some just complained about how slow NEA is when it comes to investigating issues like this. What if people really died?!

And some are just demanding for things to be done.

7. NEA is on the lookout

Times like this is when we start checking NEA’s twitter.

They have already started monitoring PSI levels regularly.

Although it’s still pretty far from our annual haze season, courtesy of our friendly neighbour.

Who incidentally reminded us to thank them for the other 9 months of fresh air.

8. This isn’t the first time this happened

Apparently, it isn’t the first time residents have experienced this, particularly those who live in Sengkang. After some digging, I found this blog that collected news clippings from 2010.

They experienced the same thing, and the odour just vanished.  And get this, NEA was still uncertain about where the smell came from.

You can read it here if you want to creep yourself out.

9. What is the status right now

As of now, they did not detect anything out of the ordinary and Straits Times reported that they believe the fumes are from Johor Bahru.

10. Thoughts

Singaporeans definitely have a keen sense of smell, even better than the contraptions they use to measure the air quality. Why not catch the new horror series on Netflix, The Mist.

Why not catch the new horror series on Netflix, The Mist.

It is about a ghastly fog that literally kills the residents in a small town. No biggie.

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