The National Earth Observatory explains that “the Southeast Asia biomass burning season, associated with agricultural land management, has been ongoing since early February, but seems to have been considerably smokier in mid-March.” Please follow the direct link to this article for more information - http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=12024.This event might be related to the wide spread smoke seen to the far west of Maryland.We are doing further research on this topic so please keep posted for new information!
Posted by Nikisa Jordan at March 24, 2004 5:00 PM