Posted on 06/27/2023 11:19:58 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Smoke from the Canadian wildfires has traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and reached Europe as part of the worst fire season in history for the northern forests, officials say.
The smoke that left New York City covered in an orange smog earlier this month was spotted arriving in the United Kingdom on Monday, with pictures from space depicting the arrival of the haze, according to the UK Met Office.
Fortunately for the British, the powerful jet-stream winds that carried the smoke across the pond helped dissipate the strength of the smog by the time it reached the shores of the UK, meaning residents there don’t have to fear the eerie orange glow or serious air-quality drop that befell New York earlier this month.
“Whilst the smoke is high up in the atmosphere, it may make for some vivid sunrises and sunsets in the next few days,” the Met Office tweeted.
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Indeed.
I suspicion these wild fires are being left unchecked because the Trudeau government believes in keeping their wilderness pristine and making no efforts to manage the forests. Ironic that Trudeau is a big green, but has allowed these fires to put more CO2 into the atmosphere than tens of thousands of ICE vehicles. Despite major US cities being choked with air pollution and tons of CO2 being added to the atmosphere, I have yet to hear a peep from the global warming cult who are busy banning gasoline powered chainsaws and lawn mowers, gas stoves and wood fired pizza ovens.
Sky is smokey here in Indiana again.
Canada needs to be sued for damages. They are willfully violating all the Green New Deal mandates ... their fires, their problem.
Worst air quality rankings in U.S.
Milwaukee’s air quality is among the worst in the country and the world as defined by IQAir.com.
Here are IQAir.com’s rankings for worst air quality levels for U.S. cities as of 2:20 p.m. Tuesday.
Brookfield, Wisconsin - 329
Wilmette, Illinois - 292
Inverness, Illinois - 273
Hudsonville, Michigan - 263
Port Huron, Michigan - 258
Grand Rapids, Michigan - 251
Des Plaines, Illinois - 250
South Bend, Indiana - 244
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - 234
New Berlin, Wisconsin - 233
Really bad here today.
(Eastern Iowa)
Do you understand why wood-burning pizza ovens are a danger to human life on this planet?
Now you know.
Yes - exactly!
The Jet Stream often wobbles thru my area so quite a ride of varied and unpredictable changes.
Pretty smokey in Michigan today...
Aren’t a bunch of these eco-terrorists?
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