Yeah, it's bad here today too. It's been pretty much a regular thing every summer for at least the last 5-10 years. Freaking liberal Canadians...lecturing us about climate change and pollution, but every year they let their whole country burn and create way more pollution than all our factories, cars, and farting cows put together .
Northern Minnesota is doing it's share to contribute. We have some barn burners going on in the BWCA (Boundary Water Canoe Area) the past week. They have jumped the border into Canada now. Smoke and smell is heavy here. Hang a steak up outside for awhile and pan fry it it will taste like you just smoked it.
Minnesota of course used the same forestry management model as California when it came to the BWCA. These fires will burn until we get some heavy snowfall.
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Posts: 9174 | Location: Minnesota | Registered: June 17, 2007
The smoke is here in central VA as well and forecast to linger into the weekend. The satellite imagery on the NWS site shows the plumes streaming out of Canada.
Posts: 2 | Location: Central Virginia | Registered: September 07, 2025
Long Island, NY skies have been very eerie the past couple days...It's almost like Canada is sending us smoke signals every few years as a plea for help
Canada better be payin' up on those carbon credits!
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Posts: 10499 | Location: Northern Virginia | Registered: November 04, 2005
“Detroit ranked as the most polluted major city in the world Thursday morning, recording a hazardous live Air Quality Index (AQI) of 426, as Minneapolis ranked third with an AQI of 349. Good AQIs range from 0 to 50. …”
vthokie, I live just east of the Blue Ridge so we have the smoke. Southwest VA appears to be smoke free per the satellite imagery. I still have family in southwest VA but have not talked with them this week.