It’s something you’re not really thankful for until you can actually see it. Our air here in Tegucigalpa has made news lately. It’s so thick that visibility at the airport was reduced to a mere two miles and the planes couldn’t even get in. Over 100 separate forest fires are burning in the mountains surrounding the city. This combined with normal air pollution and our lack of rain in several weeks makes the air so thick you can actually see it. When we open our window at night to sleep-quite necessary with the heat and lack of air-conditioning- you can smell the smoke.
I’m longing for a bit of rain washed clean air right now. It would help with the fires as well.