Toronto had the worst air quality in the world 2 days ago due to
the smoke drifting through from far away. Today Toronto dropped
to number 3 with Detroit, Mich. and Minneapolis, Minn. in first
and second place.. or should that be last and second last ?
I think MN is dealing with some fires of their own, too.
That came out last night in another report, that currently in
the USA there are something like 560 active fires in 28 states
covering about 760,000 square acres so we are both getting hit
pretty hard this year, although there is obviously a LOT more
of it in Canada at the moment.
foggy a few days ago and smelled like smoke but, on the plus
side, it dropped the temperature from 82F (28c) to about
73F (23c) making it easier to stay inside with windows closed
to avoid the smoke. After 2 days of that we got some rain and
that has helped some to clean the air.
Glad to hear you are getting some relief.
The smoke hasn't gotten as bad in recent days but that cooler
weather has really hit. We just got used to 85f weather and
it dropped below 70f today, and will stay down there for the
next several days with some nights as cold as 55f. Every week
is an adventure lately.. B)
To add to the fun Trump is threatening new tariffs on Canada
because of the smoke, as if we have any control over that.
Currently there are over 797 wildfires in Canada
Bump that up to 900+ now.. 209 of them considered 'out of control'..
100 new fires caused by lightning strikes so it's not like we
can be directly blamed for causing them.
I mostly agree. IIRC, Trump made some misguided remarks last year
>when there were fires but, also IIRC, some of those turned out to be arson.
>IMHO, I am sure Trump has no clue and isn't thinking this way but it might
>give one some ideas about increasing the penalties for getting caught
>causing such destruction.
There were some arson fires last year, although I haven't heard of
any so far this year and very few were even caused by human accident.
It's almost all at the whims of nature..
I was wondering why he'd not said anything yet this year but here we are. :(
Back to the topic, though, I was watching a Canadian weather/fire report a
>couple of days ago (Thursday or Friday). They mentioned that the areas in
>NW Ontario (i.e. the most affected areas) were expecting thunderstorms
>which, if they brought rain might help but they were also expecting some
>dry lightning, which would not help.
I was actually surprised they mentioned dry lightning. I tend to think of
>that as something that happens in areas near the high Rockys. I didn't
>realize that it was a threat in that part of Canada, too.
I never gave it much thought. I've seen it the odd time, but possibly
I was mistaken and it was just some noise before the rain started
or when we didn't get hit with the rain but it was close by.
I don't know if altitude affects that or not. This area is just under
600 feet above sea level, although that wouldn't be much compared
to a mountain area..
It would be much more productive to allocate some resources to
>help put the fires out vs. more (very unhelpful) tariff talk.
Some states and other countries are helping out, and we have
over 5000 fire fighters at work and about 300 water bomber
aircraft so it's not like we are ignoring it. But they do
generally start work where the fire is closer to where people
live and a Lot of Northern Ontario and Canada is a long way
from civilization so some of those areas may not get too much
attention other than us praying for rain..
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