Smoke gets in your eyes...blotting out the sun...

[MiHale]

Northern Michigan, lower peninsula. This morning at 9:30am. Phone pics aren’t the greatest…but then again not much to see. By 11:30am this is as clear as it got.
Smells like an old campground outside…working out there different…after a bit it gets hard to breathe..not really ‘hard’ but it feels like your brain is telling you not to breathe this air.

9:30


11:30

[rurallib]

1. o gawd!

[TexLaProgressive]

2. I am sorry that you are experiencing this

In Texas we get annual smoke from Mexican field burings. It aggreivates breathing and burns eyes.
Here’s a more mellow tune from my youth

[MiHale]

4. We get smoke from Canadian wildfires periodically...

But this one is dense…the worst in a very long time.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

31. Here in VT

I think it muted the severe weather we were predicted yesterday.
Never got as hot as we were expecting.

[GiqueCee]

33. It's a dull yellow out...

... here in central Vermont. Yesterday AM the Sun was orangey-red.

[riversedge]

37. rather scary to me.

[livetohike]

3. Sad. Be careful out there. My eyes are burning

just looking at these pics

[MiHale]

5. 👍...taking it slow today...

[biophile]

6. Great looking garden! My compliments!

[MiHale]

9. Looking foward to smoked tomatoes...🤣

[Niagara]

7. It's the same here in Buffalo

My dementia clients keep opening their bedroom window. Their house has central air.


I should make a sign not to open the window until this clears.

[Spazito]

8. Love your yard...

it's lovely. Sorry about the smoke, some of it, if not most, is definitely from Ontario, Canada. Toronto has the worst air quality in the world today, yikes.

[MiHale]

11. Thanks...keeping with the quip up thread...

Looking forward to some fresh smoked veggies.

[Spazito]

12. ....

[wnylib]

16. Toronto is just across Lake Erie from Buffalo.

I am near Buffalo, but not close enough to have the smoke -- yet.

We have been told to expect it in a day or two.

[Spazito]

18. It's pretty nasty, it's the top story in the news today...

yesterday it was the alarming temperatures, 46 degrees C when you factor in the humidity index.

[wnylib]

20. Yeah, we've got the temps here, too.

'Supposed to reach 89 F today and 93 F tomorrow, with heat index much higher.

We had the smoke here a few years back, so I know what to expect. I have masks available for outdoors and an air purifier for indoors.

[Spazito]

22. I feel for anyone who is going through this...

I'm in Alberta and we have been having torrential rain storms with flooding in many areas but I will take the storms over the heat/smoke any day. We had the heavy smoke here when Jasper was on fire in 2024, it was awful and masks were a must for sure.

[wnylib]

25. Rain is in the forecast here for Friday night and Saturday.

Might clear the air for us.

[Spazito]

27. Fingers crossed that will be the result...

it is definitely needed now.

[Prairie_Seagull]

10. We should be practiced at PPE usage.

For the foreseeable future this will become at minimum a yearly thing. Consider a least a half face but preferably a full face mask with good particulate filter. Become trained in it's use and care, buy extra cartridges to handle other pollutants as well. Never know when a chemical plant will burn.

It's a real, imperative and rational outcome of the climate catastrophe and of course GREED writ large.

[2naSalit]

13. Just like...

Many summers in Montana and Idaho!

It was like becoming a two-pack-a-day smoker for weeks at a time. We had a bit of it here last evening too. Fortunately, it has moved south of us today, replaced by much cooler weather.

[MiHale]

17. Hey, 2na!.. like sitting at the campfire...

No matter where you move the smoke follows…🤪
It’s even worse in the Upper Peninsula.
We got some of that smoke you did from some of those fires, not as bad as you got, this is different. It could be the proximity, this is much closer or the humidity levels which are higher.
Today’s flow look like it stays south of you. We were out of it yesterday.

[2naSalit]

23. Just like campfire smoke, indeed.

Yeah, I think proximity makes it worse the closer you are. More particulate sizes available... and that's what it was like in the west, like you're seeing it now.Last summer,as I was in transit during my move, I drove into the smoke plume as I entered SD and it stayed with me, along with the heat, all the way here and then stuck around for at least a week. Add that onto my transition of a 4000ft elevation drop and I was roughing it for weeks. Even suffered a bout of heat exhaustion and had to get re-hydrated at the ER after about ten days of it. It did get into triple digit territory a few times, that used to be unheard of in these parts, same as you!

Not doing the garden thing this year, no access to nearby turf.

[MiHale]

30. Holy moly...the garden...

All the rain and warm temperatures have made it look like we’re living in a rainforest…like the PNW.
Keeping us busy trying to keep up with it.

[2naSalit]

35. I had...

A similar experience last year over here. Things grew with reckless abandon and beyond expectation in some cases. The heat was constant into late September. It's like our 'tilt' has shifted.

[Bumbles]

40. As a little kiddo when I complained about the smoke from a campfire, my mom told me smoke follows beauty.

[Talitha]

14. Same here in north WI.

It was so thick for a while it looked like fog but seems to be thinning out a bit now. That orange sky - might as well be on Mars.

[MiHale]

28. Mars!...yes...you reminded me...

That little garden spot slightly south of Olympus Mons…exactly! Thanks.🤣

[Talitha]

36. Does NASA know you're terraforming?

[erronis]

15. Western Mass and most of New England. Dangerous for certain classes of people.

I've done a couple of volunteer errands today. Orange skies, slightly burning eyes. I'm not running any errands!

[MiHale]

19. Working out in the garden...

The little we are doing…when you come inside your clothes smell like smoke.

[Tbear]

38. Don't come inside your clothes! Oops wait

that’s not what you meant.
Here in the middle of the mitten the smoke has blocked the sun like a cloudy day. NO WHERE near the brown skies you have up der.
Smells like a campfire too.

[Bumbles]

21. We have the same conditions in midcoast Maine. Maine is known as the tailpipe of the nation.

I'm presuming that our kind (no sarcasm) Canadian neighbors aren't sending this in order to get even. However, there's no tariff on this import.

[MiHale]

24. I will admit...never heard the 'tailpipe' moniker...

I get it though…

[Bumbles]

39. I guess we can be relieved it's mostly passing through and not dropping off ; )

[Historic NY]

26. We have a weather alreat for smoke and haze....here in herr Hudson Valley

[Trueblue Texan]

29. Are those straw bale garden plots?

I was just learning a little about those this morning. You’ll have to share your experience of them, perhaps in a different thread. What is in the air? Dust, Smoke?

[MiHale]

34. Yes the are...

I’ve shared in the Gardening forum.
That’s the smoke from the Canadian wildfires.

We’ve been doing straw bale gardening for a few years. Here’s a link to a post made earlier this year explaining our bales this year. Things are going great. I’ll be updating those posts shortly.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/115915868

[Botany]

32. It is settling in here in Columbus, Ohio right now. The haze is getting thicker and we will have yellowish color

…. soon.

Ecology talk these fires are the result of global warming. The areas that are now burning in
Canada and Northern Minnesota are called Taiga or Boreal Forests and they should not be
burning this much. They are under snow for 6 months of the year, the ground layer has lots
of water, mosses, ferns, blueberries, rotting wood, and damp leaf litter for the other 6 months
so you can have fires if you have standing dead timber but it should not be burning @ the ground
level.

[pansypoo53219]

41. not as smoky here, but air bad + its HOT.