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Here’s the Conclusion to the Weird Burning Smell in S’pore

2017-09-28 , 2:11 pm

Yesterday NEA gave an update on the situation.

If you can’t read it. This is what they said:

On 27 September, expect cloudy conditions with light winds. The 24-hour PSI reading was in the moderate range (61-69) and the 1-hour PM2.5 concentration readings were 9-18 µg/m3, in Band I (Normal).

No hotspots in Sumatra (the place which gives us haze, by the way) were detected.

For the next few days, Singapore is unlikely to be affected by haze from Sumatra.

NEA also mentioned that dry season in Southern ASEAN region is from June to October when forest fires tend to occur.

In other words, it wasn’t the haze.

It doesn’t really say much…

An article by Channel NewsAsia (CNA) reported that the smell and fog might have originated from Malaysia. Dr Ang Peng Hwa, part of the Haze Elimination Action Team told CNA that you get a burning smell from the haze, not a pungent smell and the smell is likely from a factory’s chimney.

Dr Erik Velasco, a climate and meteorological research scientist at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, also gave his opinion to CNA. He thinks the smell came from the release of chemical product or substance from a major industrial building.

So……