Here we go again. Air quality alerts for the next couple of days due to wildfires in Canada and Minnesota. I can smell the smoke now. Hard to breathe if you have asthma or heart issues. It does result in some gorgeous red sunsets.

It's supposed to get smokey here this afternoon.

Up until I retired from fire work a couple of years ago, I referred to that as the "sweet smell of overtime!" If wildland fire smoke were really as bad for you as the tv says, I would have keeled over MANY years ago!


Relax, the wind will switch after a bit.


Pete

Nothing here yet.

Have you had a good north wind? I was in Snow Lake the last few nights visiting with your fellow Americans in the evening and it got Smokey a couple days ago, we had a good west wind. That smoke was from Saskatchewan border. It’s not too bad in Manitoba wildfire wise this summer.
Looks like Ontario has a good hot spot above you.
This map from NASA is super handy if you know how to select the different satellites & sensors. Not all the spots are fires if you look at the data.
https://firms2.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/usfs/map/#d:24hrs;l:fires_all,fire-perimeter,countries,earth;@-91.4,41.9,4.8z

All awesome people from ND, MN, Wisconsin, Nebraska by the way! most brought their crazy high end fishing boats too!
We had a great time by the fire & rapids the other night.

Yep. Wind is straight out of the north.