That whiff in the air of something burnt that you’ve been smelling over the past couple of weeks? Yeah, the National Environment Agency (NEA) acknowledges all your complaints and wants folks to know that it might go away in the next couple of weeks.
The unpleasant stench has been familiar to residents living in the eastern and north-eastern parts of the country since last month, with local authorities attributing it to landfill fires in the industrial town of Pasir Gudang across the Singapore border in Johor Bahru. NEA’s latest update clarified that hotspots with smoke plumes have been occasionally detected in southern Johor thanks to the dry and hot weather during the dry phase of the Northeast Monsoon.
“The smoke has been a cause of the intermittent burning smell in many parts of the island over the past several weeks,” NEA confirmed, while also assuring that air quality remains normal and aren’t that hazardous just yet.
The good news? An increase in rainfall is expected over the surrounding region with inter-monsoon conditions forecast to set in around early April.
“This will help to reduce the occurrence of burning smell in the next one or two weeks,” NEA declared.
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