I've got two out of control fires a half hour's drive from here. Fortunately I'm not going there tonight.

https://www.alberta.ca/wildfire-status.aspx

Early voting starts next week and there's likely a poll nearby.

after the rain yesterday

Spending more time indoors than I like but the headaches have started so I have to abide or suffer more than I need to.

really touches is it for too long. Just trying to stay hydrated and flush that crap out.

It's just that it's so early in the season.

Looks like maybe today it might move on, I hope.

But I may have misremembered.

Montana is really smoky this week.

But TrogL is in Canada, I think.

There's rain in the forecast but my lightning detection app (I worked on the original system) is sending off alerts.

Thunder heads all around here but it's still pretty smoky, it fades a little sometimes. We had rain come through on the first day of the plume and it didn't make a bit of difference other than it got darker with the clouds overhead.

Hope it clears off soon and rain come to put those fires out.

Our fire season, in normal times, is just getting ready to spark up.

i shoulda known

All the way down in Colorado. The air quality here is terrible right now. I'm sure it's worse north of here.

When she was on a freelance assignment to South Texas.

This was when the Mexican government and Chiapas were at each other's throats. One of them started setting fire to various fields, primarily those of marijuana growers, and the smoke from that came up to where we were in Texas so strongly that it triggered a severe allergic outbreak for my husband. A local GP pumped him with the equivalent of 4 benadryl to calm down the symptoms long enough for him to get well enough to travel again. The smoke inhalation didn't do me many favors, either,. My throat hurt for over a month after we got home.

Stay safe, and keep the benadryl handy if you're prone to allergies at all.

Once some decades back and very little compared to you all...

Smoke from Kentucky fires drifted up to NYC. Made the sky some what hazy. The standout was the ambient faint to mild smokey smell wherever you went.

That definitely weird since we knew no major fires were happening in the city, or across in nearby NJ.


Good Luck all of you in Canada, and your US area!

My hubby walked outside and immediately said “forest fire”. He remembered the particular smell from his youth fighting brush fires on L.I.

Oof. I’m sorry. We get a lot of your smoke. So far not bad but we do obsess. I wish countries would get together and throw everything they’ve got at these fires. I’m sending whatever quenching vibes I can.

I used to work for the Alberta Fire Service

We'd often send fire crews to Washington State to help out and they would work our fires.

Other countries do come to the US to fight bad fires, have for years. I have met a number of Canadian fire fighters during the years I lived near a smoke jumper base and when I worked with USDAFS.

Here's a Canadian AF water scooper/deHaviland right after a water drop on a major fire in YNP a few years ago.

Severe smoke blanketing Edmonton has disrupted long-weekend plans and sparked health concerns.

Hot and dry conditions are challenging Alberta firefighters this weekend, as thick wildfire smoke settles over Edmonton and surrounding areas.

On Saturday, the air quality health index (AQHI) was at 10+ — very high risk, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada, which is forecasting similarly high levels of smoke pollution through the weekend.

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But when the AQHI is at 10+, it's really best for everyone to try to stay indoors as much as possible with the windows closed, said Dr. Courtney Howard, a Yellowknife-based emergency physician who looks at the health impacts of wildfires.

more

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-air-quality-presents-very-high-risk-disrupts-long-weekend-plans-1.6850705

Visibility is a little better but the smell seems to be worse.

Thinking seriously about quitting early.

the inversion layer seems to have lifted so the smoke has dissipated a lot here. There is still some but much more tolerable this morning, I hope it continues to get better and we get some rain.

My boss was feeling off as well.

Looks like it's supposed to be sunny right now but it's not working

although not nearly as bad as it was this weekend. I hope you are feeling better today. We are still under the air quality alert but not at the top of the scale anymore.