Bad Air Day

The sun was definitely brighter this morning compared to yesterday. It was in fact, awfully smoggy yesterday. From our apartment, the visibility was only about 100m by Maghrib. It was that bad.

We went out to the Pasar Ramadhan yesterday, near Bangsar Village area and with the smoke there, the air quality was really bad. In fact, when we opened the window last evening, we could smell the burnt stench in the air. Luckily, the boys were not effected. They were happily playing all evening.

This brought back memory of three years back when the air quart around Lembah Kelang was abysmal. Visibility was down to 50 m and you can see the sedimentation in the air even inside the house. It had not gotten as bad as that since, but I was worried that it would.

Since I was on call today, and the boys were both on school holidays, we stayed at the apartment in Bangsar. We planned to stay there at least until the weekend. My poor mother-in-law had to cope on her own with her new maid. Maybe, we would return by Friday, if the boys let us …..

Bad Air Day

I realised that KL's skyline was really bad today. Visibility at ground level was only about 250 meters. I couldn't see the twin tower from my backyard when I woke up this morning. And that is not normal.

Apparently, there had been a few hot spots in Sumatera again from the last couple of weeks. Not from bakar lemang I was reliably told. The air quality has since plummeted in our Peninsular. Today was the worst. The last time the air quality was this bad, my boys ended up with asthma attacks.

The fact that it had not been raining for the last few days did not help. The weather looked overcast. Here was praying for some proper rain. The kind with cats, dogs and other fluffy animals!