preferred "inhale," right MiHale?

every summer.

These fires are a consequence.

Repukes DGAF.

Currently the humidity is so high it's hard to separate what might be smoke and what might be water vapor impacting visibility.

Told me the lightning strikes in the mountains have been rough this year. I'm in the Midwest and I see it too.

Everything looks like an old timey sepia image. I'm not all that mad about it, though, since it's mitigating the heat wave we're dealing with. Air quality in Toronto is terrible anyway, you get your daily vitamins and minerals in three or four breaths.

Maybe this has always been going on, but it seems like the Canadian fires impacting US air quality are in the news much more the 20-30 years ago

Back in '98-'99 I was up in Karelia in northwestern Russia, the landscape was Taiga and they had very many fires on the southwestern coast of the White Sea. Seemed to me the Russians took it in stride and didn't really fight the fires until they threatened northern settlements.

Weird orange light last night and early this morning

And has been replaced by the best cool summer breezes today.

It was miserable down in Corinna yesterday, humidity and then smoke.

Spooky light early in the AM and at day’s end. Today, the scent is detectable too.

It is beautiful (the amazing sunsets and sunrises), but a strangely disguised horror when it is just haze. Caution with heavy outside exposures if you have lung disease or even healthy folks exercising vigorously.

That our two major Colorado fires this year has taken so many homes is bad enough, but a courageous fire fighter in a helicopter lost his life last week. And, the wildlife... Oh, I ache for the wildlife. So, the ozone and smoke is something I can't really bemoan.

The weather flip flopped. We have Wisconsin weather. Actually, we have more like Florida weather right now. Got a weak tropical system that's kinda stuck. I'm not complaining, but our garage flooded. I got about 5 inches on Saturday. A creek nearby, overflowed the bridge, carrying trees with it. Sometimes high pressure to the north causes lows to stick in one spot or a low in one spot causes a high in another spot.

The system now is very similar to the system that caused last year's flooding in Kerrville. Uvalde got it yesterday. The main difference is: It happened during the day and Uvalde isn't full of kids in summer camps. There are campgrounds nearby, but they were evacuated ahead of time. (Well, not much evacuated, it's just that it was raining and people left). However, these aren't summer camps, but more like cabin and tent campgrounds. One guy in Uvalde lost his huge Peterbuilt truck.

The sky looks jaundiced everywhere. It's really dark and I thought there might be a storm coming since the humidity feels like 99.99999999999999999%.

Thanks for the information! I hope the wild critters will be okay!

During the day yesterday.
When we could see it.
Northern NY

happened in Wisconsin

It's getting worse as the day progresses. Not at all a good day for an old guy like me to be outside for very long. Central AC is a blessing.
I fear that this is going to be a yearly experience, and all those who's job requires them to be outside are at serious risk.

This is another sign of climate change that 10's of millions of Americans will deny.

.. and I was hacking coughing a bit and throat froggy a bit when speaking.
100 miles south of Richmond on NC border.
And trumpass the crass ass calls it a hoax.

Link to tweet

Will Trump/Hegseth respond

A dark orange-grey haze for two days now.

It did keep the temperature down.