What heavy smoke cover looks like

[Dearth]

Downtown PG this morning at 7am heavy smoke from fires turning daylight into night



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[IanWR]

Yikes! Have they given an air quality alert for you? Must be playing havoc with those with asthma, etc.

[Dearth]

I generally don't pay attention to air quality advisories mainly because I am not affected by it not to mention I spent 14 summers fighting fires so this is nothing new to me

[reefermadness]

Wow....forest fires? Never seen on here in Ontario myself.

[StirCrazy]

looks like less than we had this morning, it was almost like a light fog when I got home.

Steve

[brotherd]

The fires in B. C. are even choking us out here in cowtown. Last night was the worst I've experienced. Even reduced visibility. Air Quality was expected to drop to 5 out of 10.

[Slyguy00]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/forest-fires-rage-across-bc-forcing-thousands-from-homes/article19675543/

[tlhood]

Calgary was super smoggy today from your fires. Keep your air pollution on your side of the boarder!!!

Jokes, jokes.

[intarsiabox]

A few years back we had a lot of smoke coming from forest fires in Siberia. Amazing how far smoke can travel.

[StirCrazy]

Calgary was super smoggy today from your fires. Keep your air pollution on your side of the boarder!!!

Jokes, jokes.

probably coming from the US fires actually, that is where ours has been coming from for most of last week.

Steve

[Dearth]

This year is unusual because of the dry spring and hot summer and the severity of the fires one fire went from 6 hectares in size to just over 700 hectares in size in 7 hours add to the fact there is tons of debris on the ground to burn as well as all the bettle kill and you have a virtual perfect storm. I am expecting it to get much worse before it gets better.

[StirCrazy]

This year is unusual because of the dry spring and hot summer and the severity of the fires one fire went from 6 hectares in size to just over 700 hectares in size in 7 hours add to the fact there is tons of debris on the ground to burn as well as all the bettle kill and you have a virtual perfect storm. I am expecting it to get much worse before it gets better.

doesn't explain down here though, had a wetter than normal June, cooler temps, didn't get nice till July and then it only took 1 week of our 40 above to dry out enough around here though.

but it is good to see that the winds and light showers today have our smoke all gone.

Steve