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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe sky is brown, the sun is orange, can't see two blocks
Evacuation alerts, smoke everywhere, coughing, eyes a mess, fire bans including charcoal BBQ's.
It's May. This shit doesn't normally happen until late June.
Stinky The Clown
(67,824 posts)TrogL
(32,822 posts)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
applegrove
(118,832 posts)TrogL
(32,822 posts)Early voting starts next week and there's likely a poll nearby.
applegrove
(118,832 posts)TrogL
(32,822 posts)riversedge
(70,333 posts)after the rain yesterday
Kaleva
(36,356 posts)2naSalit
(86,824 posts)Spending more time indoors than I like but the headaches have started so I have to abide or suffer more than I need to.
Maru Kitteh
(28,343 posts)really touches is it for too long. Just trying to stay hydrated and flush that crap out.
2naSalit
(86,824 posts)It's just that it's so early in the season.
Looks like maybe today it might move on, I hope.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)hatrack
(59,593 posts)But I may have misremembered.
Montana is really smoky this week.
But TrogL is in Canada, I think.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)There's rain in the forecast but my lightning detection app (I worked on the original system) is sending off alerts.
2naSalit
(86,824 posts)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.
barbtries
(28,811 posts)i shoulda known
Laffy Kat
(16,388 posts)All the way down in Colorado. The air quality here is terrible right now. I'm sure it's worse north of here.
ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)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.
electric_blue68
(14,956 posts)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!
marybourg
(12,639 posts)My hubby walked outside and immediately said forest fire. He remembered the particular smell from his youth fighting brush fires on L.I.
electric_blue68
(14,956 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)Oof. Im 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 theyve got at these fires. Im sending whatever quenching vibes I can.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)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.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)2naSalit
(86,824 posts)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.
Spazito
(50,499 posts)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
TrogL
(32,822 posts)Visibility is a little better but the smell seems to be worse.
Thinking seriously about quitting early.
Spazito
(50,499 posts)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.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)My boss was feeling off as well.
Looks like it's supposed to be sunny right now but it's not working
electric_blue68
(14,956 posts)Spazito
(50,499 posts)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.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)I see it in the sky here in MI, sadly.
High level haze for the past few days. We dont even get to see the sunset here.