When Florida’s pre-harvest sugar cane burning season started on Oct. 3 with fires throughout 160 acres of land, the state’s division of agriculture, which authorizes the blazes, proclaimed the day the beginning of “Florida Local weather Week.”  

It was maybe an unintentionally ironic begin of eight months yearly that can see greater than 8,000 fires throughout a minimum of 300,000 acres of agricultural land ship poisonous smoke and ash into the air.