Dave Cohen submitted this photo and note: “Sugar cane is a major agricultural product of Palm Beach County, Florida. Once it’s harvested, the remaining stalks are burned to clear the field. From 2,500 feet in my 1967 Cessna 172, “Lily,” near Lake Okeechobee, the smoke almost resembled lenticular clouds over mountains.”
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Mountains? There aren’t any mountains in Florida! It’s good that the smoke appears to be confined to a relatively small area. Visibility approaches IFR conditions over wide areas when forest fires burn out west. It’s too bad in this day and and that some practical alternative to burning the stubble hasn’t been found for both sugar cane fields and fields used for producing grass seed or west.