Smoke forecaster

Stepped outside today and the smoke from the forest fires is quite noticeable here in Southern Illinois.
And we're only about halfway up on the scale here: https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

This morning at around 10:00 am our area was in the 120+ range and these photos were taken around 4:00 pm and down to the 60+ range. It's funny how your link show very low smoke in the areas where the fires are

Scary stuff

Its pretty thick here in WNY

It was pretty hazy here yesterday in southern MI where I'm at and you could smell it as well. Pretty much back to clear today.

WI

Spring/Summer of 2023

Drought - No rain

Honestly it’s rained two days in the last 60

So you would think Mostly Sunny - Blue Skies

Problem is - No blue skies

Gray / Hazy / Smoky literally almost every day

2023 - Summer Of Smoke

Some people overlook when one area suffers another excels. Here in the dust bowl were are no longer in a drought (for now) and things have grown well and ive seen this go in 10 year cycles which is how the dust bowl got so populated in such a short time in the early 1900-s. The farmers hit the area in an extremely wet time period only to find out it was cyclic.

And the EPA is concerned about the VOCs in a spray bomb !!!

We should sue Canada for killing us

im in my mid 70's and i've never seen smoke in the air like this. i live a little south of indy and for the past 2 days everything smells like burning wood and the sky looks like a light fog all the time.

My travels today throughout PA, from Red Lion to Scranton- there is a ton of this smoke $hit in the air. Mountain tops covered, it looks foggy. Its definitely affecting my breathing, it sucks!

I Live in N.E. Tennessee. The smoke is here. The news has been reporting it for a few days now. I didn't think it would come this far south. I was wrong. It hasn't really affected us yet but the nearby mountains are really hazy.

Just think, most of those Canadian fires were caused by arson, as in intentionally set.

Most never thought fires in Canada would cause problems for us here.

makes sense now

Yeah - it was pretty damn bad here 40 miles NW of Detroit - it got progressively worse into the evening here. at around 7:30 last night, the air index was at 184. In my 65 years, I've never seen sh*t like this before. The air had an acrid, toxic smell to it as well. Today, we woke to a pretty dense fog, but that cleared. Much clearer today, but still the smoky haze & some of the smell, but not as bad. We are living in some strange times.

We are living in strange times.

This is a “WOW” moment.

Another wow moment is when you are in a mine or building and the black acrid smoke of electrical insulation burning turns the air black and your eyesight no longer helps you do what is crucial.

I wonder if most of the trees burning are fur trees or evergreens,
and how that alters the chemicals in the smoke.

Inside our heads is a “blood-brain barrier” that is the last barrier to keep tiny particles from doing “who knows what” to our thinking.

When the asteroid hit 65 million years ago it set all the forests on earth on fire.
Hard to imagine.

We will trade you

We are in the orange today. 122 right now. Supposed to be better tomorrow.

Kinda crazy,
but so much smoke layers in the air
means you can aim regular cameras at the Sun
and take pictures of ‘sunspots’

https://www.solarham.net/

"im in my mid 70's and i've never seen smoke in the air like this. i live a little south of indy and for the past 2 days everything smells like burning wood and the sky looks like a light fog all the time."



looks like this on I-80, exit 78, [north of Coder] for the last couple of days, and being in the same age group, i have never seen it like this. [except the time i set the woods on fire playing with my army men and a can of lighter fluid as a "flame thrower". i got my a$$ beat big time for that stunt. : . luckily, the fire department was close, and put the fire out quickly. i never played with my army men after that "life lesson" was taught to me.

i'd bet they are arson too. more environmentalist terror.

Pictures from a pittsburgh photographer

I drive truck from near Wheeling to Eighty Four to Aliquippa, really bad the last two days. Looking East on I 70 looks like a bad thunderstorm is ahead. How soon before some lawyer sues Canada for second hand smoke?

The fires are in remote locations where few trained firefighters are available, and very little fire fighting equipment is available. And those fires just happen to be where the prevailing winds drive most of the smoke towards us.

Hey that's just how it looked back in the 50's and 60's when I grew up there but down the Mon in McKeesport. Between the Clairton coke plant, the blast furnaces in the "Port" and the Duquesne furnaces it was like that 24/7. Deja Vue-(pun intended) all over again

MikeR

REAL smoky again here in my area of Michigan. I think worse than 2 days ago. So, when the fires reach our border, are they going to just come across & start burning the US? [censored] is this all about anyway?

I tried posting pics from my travels today (Harrisburg to Pittsburgh). For whatever reason it will not let me post these pics. The one time I tried it even locked me from using the "post" button. Pittsburgh is absolutely horrible. Within 15 minutes my lungs were burning. It sucked.

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Nearly every province in Canada has fires burning.
A record 30,000 square miles (80,000 square kilometers) have burned,
an area nearly as large as South Carolina,
according to the Canadian government.

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https://apnews.com/article/smoky-ai...climate-9d7f3fd7645e2222357022ea8277f1fa

Thinking back to Red Adair using explosives to snuff out oil well-head fires.

Has there been a field test of dropping a line of multiple fuel-air “Daisy Cutter” propane bombs on a forest fire?

looks like that here as well, and i'm 82 miles north...............

Looks like China.

Its time for Trudeau to ask Biden for some help. If those two can't fix it.....who can?

Dave

No really good air but sooner or later you gotta cut grass. Especially when they are calling for five days of rain starting tomorrow

How many board feet of lumber is typically in a square mile of Canada forest land?

At least charge them for polluting our air! This is the second wave of smoke! After the first one i figured we would be done with it. WRONG! Friday when i left for work it was smokey but by the time i got to work it was 3 Times as bad. Burns your eyes! They say it will be clearing up but in the yellow today. Been in the red for the last few days. If you want to check your air quality go here.

Fighting Big Fire with small Fires

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65848872

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Fire chiefs are particularly looking to expand the number of specialist teams trained in "burn suppression" techniques - the deliberate burning of land to keep a fire contained. At the moment, just five UK units across more than 50 fire and rescue services specialise in the "fighting fire with fire" technique, mostly in moorland areas.

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For some reason the brush fire scene from the quirky comedy movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy” is unforgettable.

For vehicle repair,
the driverless Land Rover scene brought a chuckle.

Canadian wildfire smoke is “shading” millions of solar cell panels and reducing panel electrical output

https://fxc6e4.p3cdn1.secureserver....dfireSmokeOnSolarGeneration-Version1.pdf