The last two days the smoke has been thick down here in WI. The whole state is under Unhealthy to Hazardous to be outside warnings. When you walk outside you can smell it and if you have been out in it for several hours you can feel it on the back of your throat. Anyone else having this problem?

Nope, no problems here in southeast Mb.

Absolutely, Yes...especially last evening.

I guess I’m just used to it….
It’s funny when our stores guy tells us smokers to move 30’ from the open garage door as our smoke is wafting in.
“Dale! Have you looked around outside lately?”……lol

Parts of MN have the worst air quality world wide. Work today will be tough.

Don’t you Canucks know this is causing even more climate change!! lol. This is exactly the type of stuff why all the studies and crackpot funded “scientists” can go pound sand. Mother Nature can do more in a decade of fires and volcanic eruptions than mankind has done since we invented the wheel…. In reference to the post, it seemed worse here a month ago, but my sinuses are a mess for sure.

We could smell it inside the air conditioned house last night. Rough going outside if you have heart problems like me.

Yeah, it was nice and cool outside last night but we didn't want to fill the house up with smoke so we left the air conditioner on and the windows closed. This is not only causing health issues but it is also costing us money. If the canadian govt was at least trying to put out the fire it would be a little easier to put up with. The fact they don't care really is a crime.

Wind is wild!!! We’ve had one day this summer where the smoke was overly noticeable. There are multiple large, not contained fires near me, communities have been evacuated, I can watch smoke billowing up like a bomb exploded, while sitting in the boat catching walleye, yet the smoke hasn’t affected us at all.

This comment is funny, and extremely ignorant. If they were trying to put out “the fire”. Which fire? lol
Heck my province alone has 60 different ones burning right now , the biggest of them are about 1.5 million hectares and 300 military personnel have been added to the many firefighter numbers this week. We’re boreal forest under extreme drought with dried up rivers and creeks and less than 2” rain on the whole year. You have no knowledge of what you speak, none whatsoever.

I was north of Kenora last week and we had smoke everyday, but really wasn't too bad. Except 1 morning it was extremely thick - visibility less than a quarter mile.
Didn't bother the fishing!

Forests burn,,,,,70-80-90-100 years later,,,, they’ll burn again

Nothing new

Very smokey in Michigan's thumb.

Is it that dry in Canada that they're having so many fires? About the only thing good about fires is that it does kill wood ticks.

Obviously drought is regional, Canada as a whole Is pretty big. Saskatchewan, the land of 100 000 lakes is extremely dry in the boreal forest region. There are other parts of the province that have had adequate moisture but the area I live in (close to a bunch of the fires) is disastrously dry. Hay production is about 1/4 what it normally is, rivers are running nearly dry, many crops will be insured and simply baled for livestock feed, ranchers are running out of water in dugouts and sloughs. I have a 2 acre lawn, I have not turned a wheel on my mower since late June, it’s brown, it’s done. Normally I cut it at least twice a week. So yes, it indeed that dry in some parts.

Retired now, but I fought wildland fire for 54 seasons.

I love the smell of smoke... smells like Overtime to me!

Pete

I agree. Lol but I guess you have to be a firefighter! Extremely dry in lots of areas in Saskatchewan as stated above. Places where I trapped muskrats with culverts that were lakes 10 feet deep a few years ago are now seeded and have crops in them. Been about 5 years of low water or none where I’m at. Muskrats have disappeared but had a good run for 20 some years

It’s nuts how low the water is. The river 2 miles from my home is nearly a dry rock bed. Last year at this time I was catching walleye out of pockets of water as deep as 8 feet. The lake where we have a cabin is a unique spot in that you actually launch into a creek system and access the lake via it. Most years there’s a shallow stretch of sand, say 3-4 feet deep that extends for about 1/4 miles out from the mouth. As of now the only way to get out there is to idle very slowly, choosing the route to not get hung up as that stretch of 3-4 feet of water is a foot and a half. On a decent size lake, that’s a lot of water missing. Here’s the view looking out from the creek.

Thanks for enlightening me. Assuming the canadian govt does care how much smoke comes across the border makes it slightly more bearable.

Too bad we live in a world everything gets turned political. You’ve got congress people writing to complain about smoke as though any governing body can control the wind. lol

It’s not as if we’ve ever had to deal with smoke from US fires. Lol

Here is the air quality map from the EPA: https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/?show...61.6589552425&ymax=7427107.650627477

It's bad here In Oregon WI.

You have got to be a city slicker.

Sounds like you Midwesters are experiencing what we true westers do every summer, except our smoke is from local fires, none of this imported crap

At least your fires get put out.

LOL. Not even close.

Isn’t BC, specifically Vancouver island and area currently getting smoked out by fires from Washington? Imported crap they say.

We are just much more proactive in managing our forest lands to minimize fires and much more successful at extinguishing them when they do start. Ounce of prevention.....

How do al these fires get started?

Huh, weird. Sorry, you got me fooled.

That explains it

I don’t know if you’re speaking to the westerners or the Canadians here, but either way it’s a moot point. Michigan has like 20 million acres of forest, none of it really being “that remote” other than the upper peninsula . Saskatchewan has 100 million acres of forest, think a dozen UP’s, much of it totally remote, without road access, far, far from infrastructure. Etc etc Michigan also has ten times the population making being proactive so to speak a bit easier as opposed to somewhere where there is literally 100’s and 100’s and 100’s of miles of vast wilderness without even a road. As of now, basically half of the UP’s total forest area has been lost to fire in SK this year.

P.S. We appreciate the help we’ve had from fire-fighters from various states that have helped in Canada many times over the years. I think that arrangement of helping each other with fire as we’ve always done is a better one than playing politics and blaming this or that.

Very noticeable here in SW MI today.

Asthma and sinuses have been extra bad this year Have had a lot of rain here 9 inches in July alone hot 90+ weather and very humid corn is loving it me not so much Have smelled smoke so it must be bad usually at dark when the dew is setting
What year didn't we have smoke?

Rvask, I was just letting Jingles know why we dont need to 'experience' the smoke here..half sarcastic and half not.

This is non stop. We need more tariffs on Canada.

I think this is us being retaliatory.

But for real, I feel for you, being smoked out sucks. It won’t be over soon I’m afraid.

I’d guess lightning strikes is #1. Trains throwing a spark. Even heard a story about a 80 year old camp trash pile with bottles in it starting a fire. Apparently a tree fell, so the sun was able to hit the trash pile and a bottle magnified the sun starting fire. Camp fires, cars, smokie treats. Lots of ways they get started.

Pretty heavy smoke in central Iowa today

True, there are many ways they start. ATV’s can even start them if it’s real dry. I wouldn’t let my kid move his bear bait to a dry muskeg swamp with lots of high dead grass for this exact reason.

Thick today. It just has to run it course. Messing me up after a day of mowing grass.

Here in Iowa we deal with it, cut the trees plough the ground and plant corn.

The fires help contribute to the thawing of permafrost and the release of methane which holds a lot more heat than CO2 per unt of volume.

Bryce

I can get a hold of Wab and he’ll get you a permit to go up and harvest some timber. Wait, why haven’t any of the big companies done this already?……lol
Looks like the wind is shifted and might clear things up for a few days. Still smoke warnings today though.

Not a cloud in the blue gray sky here in Sauk County Wisconsin yesterday. Can't even see a mile or two down the road. I just snapped this on our way back from a grocery store run.

Finally got some decent cool air with 50s at night for just a few nights here. I love that cool air for sleep. I open the window and breathe the cool air...and get even more Canadian smoke so bad I can taste it. Getting really sick of this!

(Thanks for listening. )

Smoke just got to central Kansas!

Smoky here in SE Nebraska too but I can't smell it.

Now I can smell it.

The reason you have smoke.. it’s the jet stream. Maybe cloud seeding can fix it

It’s amazing how people actually think in this world. It’s actually scary.
Being from Northern Ontario I have never seen more Americans even pre-Covid. So you guys like the dip! But can’t swallow the chew

What happened about just buying American… and staying in in country…

I don't remember in over 60 years having Canadian smoke like this except in recent years in Wisconsin. Maybe I'm forgetting some, but it sure didn't seem common until recently. It's making everyone ask questions about how and why.