Thread: Canadian forest fire smoke

Hey yall.....

Here in Saskatchewan we are having a huge amount of forest fires....... Over 500+ this year compared to under 200 last year this time. The fires are in the northern part of the Saskatchewan (200+ miles north of me).... I know there are also forest fire in other areas too...... The smoke haze has been here since Monday..... Today was really bad for air quality. I heard that smoke from the Canadian forest fires' smoke has floated down to Tennessee..... Anyone south of Canada notice it? Just curious.

no haven't noticed here in Memphis, tc

Yeah, I noticed it earlier this week. The sky was been hazy and sun was a red ball. Also, light coming in the window cast a reddish tint on the floor.

Here is a pic from the U.S. National Weather Service showing the smoke plume. I think the picture was from Tues, June 30th.

We had an orange sun and a pink moon tow days in a row here in Iowa. It is gone now, but looked pretty weird.

The day light looks orangish here. Today we also had a west wind, which doesn't help......

We need RAIN!!!

Help with the fires and I'm tired of watering my lawn and garden.....

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

Yeah, I noticed it earlier this week. The sky was been hazy and sun was a red ball. Also, light coming in the window cast a reddish tint on the floor. I think it was from Tuesday.

Here is a pic from the U.S. National Weather Service showing the smoke plume.

Wow!

That puts it in perspective now.

Wow - didn't realize it was that massive a fire.

Reminds me of the days in the 70's, when I used to hear the US weather reports announcing, "Canadian cold front, moving in..."

And of course that old song by a great Canadian music group, The Band, "Acadian Driftwood", actually used that line...that smoke line looks about 1500 km's long and 500 km wide...massive. So much for the last 20 years of trying to reduce greenhouse emissions. One forest fire or volcanic eruption and all that work down the drain!

Originally Posted by Willisf

The day light looks orangish here. Today we also had a west wind, which doesn't help......

We need RAIN!!!

Help with the fires and I'm tired of watering my lawn and garden.....

Wish you could take some of what we have been getting here in Ontario . . . rain, and overcast almost all the time. Into a stretch of a week's worth of sun now, but that has been it so far this "summer".

Same in my state,Fires everywhere,no water,108 deg days,freakin kids already shooting off bottle rockets
Not lookin good.

Originally Posted by Orville

Wish you could take some of what we have been getting here in Ontario . . . rain, and overcast almost all the time. Into a stretch of a week's worth of sun now, but that has been it so far this "summer".

Yea, you can tell from this map Forest fires | Ontario.ca where all the rain has been falling in this province. Been a bad year for forest fires from Northwestern Ontario west to BC. The fire crews have their work cut out for them for sure.

Bob