Haze could return in July

• Clivebenss

  1 May 10, 03:08

  Apr 30, 2010 - The Straits Times
  

  Haze could return in July

  By Amresh Gunasingham

  The haze could make an unwanted comeback in July if vigilance to curb forest fires in Indonesia is not stepped up, meeting of Asean environment ministers warned on Friday.

  The number of hotspots detected this month was an increase from March, despite this being traditionally a rainy season and weather experts predicting a weakening of the El Nino weather pattern, which brings hotter and drier weather.

  At a meeting of the sub-regional steering committee on transboundary haze pollution held in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan on Friday, Indonesia, which has been the epicentre of much of the acrid pall that has blown this way for much of the last decade, also pledged to cut the number of hotspots by 20 per cent every year, starting from this year.

  In a statement, the ministers said countries will be on alert and were committed to mitigating the fires.

• Clivebenss

  1 May 10, 11:34

  The haze is coming soon.

  

• Clivebenss

  6 May 10, 06:18

  has the haze return?

• Kawac151

  6 May 10, 10:24

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  has the haze return?

  No haze lah. Weather has been very hot nowadays.

• ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~

  6 May 10, 10:28

  article said july...

  u ask now...

  

   

   

  No, haze not here... ... ... yet...  

• TTFU

  6 May 10, 10:33

  Ya weather very hot.... even at night also no wind...