Posted
7/22/2004 09:02:00 PM
by Douglas
Memo to Alaska: Houston has plenty of smog of its own without you sending yours
down here.That stinging in the eyes and nose during the past several days was caused mostly by ozone, the usual homegrown pollutant that thrives in a Houston summer. But other airborne irritants traveled a long way to get here.
High-altitude winds ferried smoke from enormous forest fires in Alaska and northern Canada all the way to South Texas and Louisiana, said Bryan Lambeth, senior meteorologist with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
It did make for an incredible sunrise on Tuesday. But that may have just been a plant explosion in Pasadena.