Wildfire smoke covers Central Park, 2500 miles away.

[BigmanPigman]

Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) Tweeted:
New Video: This is the NYC Wildfire Haze.

A skyline blurred and enshrouded - complete with a sickening acrid smell - from fires induced by our abuse of the planet. But the fires are 2500 miles away, in Oregon and California.

Like the climate disaster it portends, it's here now. https://t.co/aQYRXM1JoR

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[elleng]

1. Sunset yesterday, southern MD,

60 miles south of DC.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Is it smelly?

[elleng]

3. No, fortunately.

[2naSalit]

4. That's what it looks like on a good day around here.

Most of the time you wouldn't know that we are surrounded by mountains. And then there's the heat that's been cooking us since early June.

[Champp]

5. "It's just a lib hoax. Pay no mind. We need more tax cuts for the rich." - Republicans, Inc.

Same as it ever was.

[cilla4progress]

6. Wildfire smoke is bizarre.

We are about 40 miles as the crow flies from huge wildfires in Washington - and no smoke here at all (this time...have been there done that frighteningly before)!!

EPA has a really good app to find out severity and health impacts of smoke in locations you select. AirNOW.

Stay safe, everyone!!

[GemDigger]

7. Wildfires do not smell like burning garbage.

Maybe the city needs to tend to its waste management better. I am a lot closer and it smells like forest fires. Not garbage.

[Probatim]

8. I ran near Pittsburgh this evening and the city skyline was almost invisible in the haze.

I finished around 7:15 PM and the skyline was less visible than KO's photo of NYC.

I've got a long trail running event on Sunday and just started wondering about wearing a mask. It's kind of scary to think about how much crap might be in the air.