Add Pennsylvania to the list of “Code Orange” states.
We could smell smoke in New Jersey. We’ve seen haze and red suns from distant fires before, but this is the first time we’ve been able to smell fires 500 or more miles away.
I drove about 40 miles in SW Michigan today and it was hazy all the way. I saw nasty smoke quite a bit in Nevada in recent years but it was much worse, never Michigan, to be sure it is a rather dry spring in these parts.
How does smoke set off an alert?
Millions of acres of forests in western Canada have been burning for more than a month. Now eastern Canada said “hold my Molson” and blazes have been popping up there in the last week or so.
Are these fire from those women fire fighters controlled burn? https://freebeacon.com/politics/burning-down-barriers/
a colder front is gonna hit and supposedly drive the smoke and haze down as far as florida-
It’s been quite clear in Western Montana and North Idaho lately after the initial smoke from the Alberta fires passed. Right now I’m sitting on the patio on a delightful evening. There’s a golden orange glow in the clouds over the eastern mountains right now at dusk. They look like high clouds. Fingers are all crossed here in North Idaho that we get spared smoke this summer!
It was pretty bad here in Connecticut yesterday.
My brother sent a pic of the skies over the family farm south of Buffalo near the PA border. The fires are doing interesting things with sunsets. He also said a strong smell of fire is in the air.