I thought the sky looked weird, it's wildfire smoke

[Quiet Em]

Wildfires expose millions in Midwest, Northeast to dangerous smoke

Heavy smoke from several large wildfires blazing in Canada and Minnesota is expected to engulf large swaths of the Midwest and Northeast U.S. this week, exposing millions of people to dangerous air pollution.

https://www.news10.com/news/national/wildfires-expose-millions-in-midwest-northeast-to-dangerous-smoke/

The sun looked odd at sunset last night and today it's a weird orangey tinted haze outside.

[MiHale]

1. Lookie here...I posted this am

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182333729

Lower peninsula, Michigan.

[True Dough]

5. That's not your

preferred "inhale," right MiHale?

[MiHale]

7. You know me too well...🤣👍

[Quiet Em]

6. Nice pictures

Yes it looks the same way here.

[True Dough]

2. Becoming far too common

every summer.

[maxsolomon]

18. Anthropogenic Climate Change is a real thing.

These fires are a consequence.

Repukes DGAF.

[31j20b3]

3. I've smelled it in Southern Wisconsin for a couple mornings...

Currently the humidity is so high it's hard to separate what might be smoke and what might be water vapor impacting visibility.

[Lategame]

4. A friend of mine in Denver

Told me the lightning strikes in the mountains have been rough this year. I'm in the Midwest and I see it too.

[Jedi Guy]

8. It's hazy as hell here in Toronto today.

Everything looks like an old timey sepia image. I'm not all that mad about it, though, since it's mitigating the heat wave we're dealing with. Air quality in Toronto is terrible anyway, you get your daily vitamins and minerals in three or four breaths.

[31j20b3]

9. Sepia color is a tell for wildfire smoke.

Maybe this has always been going on, but it seems like the Canadian fires impacting US air quality are in the news much more the 20-30 years ago

Back in '98-'99 I was up in Karelia in northwestern Russia, the landscape was Taiga and they had very many fires on the southwestern coast of the White Sea. Seemed to me the Russians took it in stride and didn't really fight the fires until they threatened northern settlements.

[Easterncedar]

10. Not quite so bad in Central Maine

Weird orange light last night and early this morning

[2naSalit]

14. Fortunately it has moved south of us....

And has been replaced by the best cool summer breezes today.

It was miserable down in Corinna yesterday, humidity and then smoke.

[Drum]

11. I can see it and smell it here in the NY Catskills too.

Spooky light early in the AM and at day’s end. Today, the scent is detectable too.

[sakabatou]

12. I remember when the sky was orange/red with all the smoke

[hlthe2b]

13. Welcome to our world (Western US/Rocky Mountain Region)...

It is beautiful (the amazing sunsets and sunrises), but a strangely disguised horror when it is just haze. Caution with heavy outside exposures if you have lung disease or even healthy folks exercising vigorously.

That our two major Colorado fires this year has taken so many homes is bad enough, but a courageous fire fighter in a helicopter lost his life last week. And, the wildlife... Oh, I ache for the wildlife. So, the ozone and smoke is something I can't really bemoan.

[Talitha]

15. My heart goes out to anyone with respiratory problems.

[LeftInTX]

16. Ugh.....It's been raining in South Texas for the past three days.

The weather flip flopped. We have Wisconsin weather. Actually, we have more like Florida weather right now. Got a weak tropical system that's kinda stuck. I'm not complaining, but our garage flooded. I got about 5 inches on Saturday. A creek nearby, overflowed the bridge, carrying trees with it. Sometimes high pressure to the north causes lows to stick in one spot or a low in one spot causes a high in another spot.

The system now is very similar to the system that caused last year's flooding in Kerrville. Uvalde got it yesterday. The main difference is: It happened during the day and Uvalde isn't full of kids in summer camps. There are campgrounds nearby, but they were evacuated ahead of time. (Well, not much evacuated, it's just that it was raining and people left). However, these aren't summer camps, but more like cabin and tent campgrounds. One guy in Uvalde lost his huge Peterbuilt truck.

[eShirl]

17. Haven't been outside and I can smell smoke on my hair.

I can feel in in my eyes and throat
here in Maine

[MorbidButterflyTat]

19. It's scary here in western New York!

The sky looks jaundiced everywhere. It's really dark and I thought there might be a storm coming since the humidity feels like 99.99999999999999999%.

Thanks for the information! I hope the wild critters will be okay!

[mgardener]

20. The sun was an orange ball

During the day yesterday.
When we could see it.
Northern NY

[pfitz59]

21. The largest FF in US history

happened in Wisconsin

[tazcat]

22. Pestigo. Smelling smoke up here too.

[patphil]

23. I live in south eastern New York State. I can see the haze, and taste smoke when I breath the air in.

It's getting worse as the day progresses. Not at all a good day for an old guy like me to be outside for very long. Central AC is a blessing.
I fear that this is going to be a yearly experience, and all those who's job requires them to be outside are at serious risk.

This is another sign of climate change that 10's of millions of Americans will deny.

[Vinca]

24. Same here. The air is worse than I've ever seen it. We noticed the orangy-red sun setting last night, too.

[jimmy the one]

25. Sun was abnormal orange in southern Virginia today wednesday

.. and I was hacking coughing a bit and throat froggy a bit when speaking.
100 miles south of Richmond on NC border.
And trumpass the crass ass calls it a hoax.

[EarthFirst]

26. Rochester NY this afternoon

[MorbidButterflyTat]

29. I was just going to post this

Link to tweet

[lame54]

27. Canada's Air Warfare...

Will Trump/Hegseth respond

[WiVoter]

28. North Central Wisconsin Today