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.