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