How's the Forest Fire Season in your neck of the woods?

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Bart_

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Sucking pretty bad across Canada, early June, even on the east coast. Smoking out people all over, even turned New York city into Beijing Olympics air quality. 6x dangerous particulate level in Ottawa. I felt it today, throat, eyes, gobbing, fits of coughing. Smelled like downwind of a camp fire.

Cripes!
 
We are getting nice sunsets in northern Minnesota. The smoke doesn't seem to bother me. Some people here are having trouble, but I don't even notice it. Probably been down wind of too many campfires over the years. But I am enjoying the sunsets it produces.
 
We had some Alberta smoke a few weeks ago. Most our airflow comes off the pacific this time of year, meaning every few weeks we will get a NE breeze.
Had a red flag warning for the west/wet side of the mountains yesterday. Which is more of a late august/September thing. West side Oregon has already had a few this year, but quickly contained.
We had a very cool moist (but far from the quantity we normally should have).. If this continues on the same trajectory, the western states will nearly certainly loose a town
 
Here near Lancaster, Pennsylvania the smoke is very bad, and expected to get worse. Today was the worst day so far, a constant smoke smell, my eyes are complaining, and my nose and sinuses are all plugged up. Looking across the valley, I could hardly see the next hill.
 
Here in the suburbs of Detroit two evenings ago, I heard a bunch of sirens, fire engines, etc. Turned on the scanner; heard people calling in multiple reports of heavy smoke throughout the community. Ran outside and could smell and see smoke streaming through the yards. Figured a garage or house was on fire a couple of streets over. Hopped on my bike to go look - turns out it was smoke from the Canadian fires about 250 miles away. The local fire/police departments dispersed their equipment in search of a non-existent fire. They even called the neighboring communities upwind to see if they had anything burning. Visibility got down to half a mile for a brief period. I was expecting to see ash floating through the air. Finally cleared up after a half hour.
 
It was bad last week, but near 5 days straight of rain has pretty well doused everywhere and flushed the skies.
 
Hey can we talk a little bit about the *why* of this bs? Canadian foresters what’s your insight? What management mistakes led to this?
 
What struck me was news from Nova Scotia which has never been on the radar before to my recollection. Record setting large fire. Western Canada, BC interior, northern Ontario normal yearly occurrence. Statistics will tell with time.

The entire mid north of Canada is forest coast to coast. Canadian Shield. I don't think there's enough population in Canada to even hope to man-made "manage" that much nature.
 
We (well, the neighboring island, the one where I work) had our first brush fire just this week. Not sure but they think it started from underground smoldering from a burn pile a month ago. I'm a volunteer fire fighter on my island and we had a long discussion about it at fire drill last night, the chief told us the state is expecting a dry and dangerous year for Washington overall.

Not my photos, but what happened here the other day:

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Yay! Rain, happening right now. A rinse and a drink for everthing.

I hope we get some occasional showers this summer.




I've been wearing my RZ vented mask or similar, no name masks, all the time for a couple weeks for sawdust, chipper dust, grinder dust and blowing dust.

Haven't needed it so much for walking on powdery soil dust, yet.

It makes a huge difference!
 
Bit of rain and wind change took away our local air quality advisory. What a relief. For now.
 
Has anyone seen the satellite imagery of the Quebec fires starting near simultaneously across a huge swath of the province?

Also there seems to be a lot of arson claims.

Are climate change activists burning the forest to advance their agenda?
 
Found an answer that shows lightening strikes in the area that look like they caused the Quebec fires. Once the wind picked up the smoke plumes emerge on the satellite imagery.
 
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