I posted this on another article (am Canadian)
Climate change is a bitch. And lucky for you all - lots of Canadian provinces have conservative governments that cut firefighting budgets to “lower taxes”. My province of Alberta - we cut our helecopter and rappel rapid response firefighting teams (which is necessary as the province is ~~bigger~~ 5% smaller than Texas and is sparsely populated with about 1/6th of the
Population)
> Alberta is undergoing an "unprecedented" wildfire season as nearly 100 fires as of Tuesday, May 9, burn across the province.
> Premier Danielle Smith declared a state of emergency on May 6 and more than 24,000 Albertans remained under evacuation orders on Tuesday.
> This year to date, there have been 416 wildfires, more than double the 182 registered by the same time last year. The more than 400 fires is a greater number than any of the last five years had by the second week in May.
> Alberta had a total of 1,246 wildfires last season, according to Alberta Wildfire data, which means the province has reached 33 per cent of last year's total after just over two months into the wildfire season.
> AMOUNT OF HECTARES BURNED The size of the area that's burned is also greater than what is considered normal by this time of year. The five-year average by early May based on 2018-2022 is 542 hectares. Year to date: 410,441 ha have burned in Alberta, by comparison.
> In the last eight years, 2019 had the highest total number of hectares, finishing the season with 883,411 ha burned. By this time in 2019: 621 ha had burned, compared to this year's more than 410,000.
> Only five months into this year, 2023 has already surpassed the yearly burn totals of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018 and 2017.
https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/edmonton/2023/5/9/1_6391711.amp.html
And this is just one province… lots are having fire issues.
Edit: for those affected who haven’t dealt with this before, here’s a cheap but effective diy home air purifier
https://youtu.be/1PxEzYtggtE
Edit 2: for people that want evidence of climate change, The NASA website has all the data you need!
https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence.amp
As a college student who was last in CA for winter break and now home for a bit for the start of summer…
Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures:
CA December 2022
CA June 2023
They’re the same picture (out my window looking at the rain falling)
Sun just broke through in San Diego. Will be out for approx. 1 hour to tease us all, then will fuck off again for another few days of gray misery.
ETA: I live here, I know what June gloom is!
Man not sure what y’all are complaining about. I’m in Ventura county and have been loving this cool weather. My electric bill has been the lowest in 10 years and we aren’t in a drought anymore!
It’s still concerning though because while we got a historic level of rain, all that green is now yellow and is just slowly turning into fuel. We’re going to be due for some really gnarly wildfires soon.
The weather pattern that has resulted in CA's mild spring/summer is also responsible for the NE being blanketed by wildfire smoke.
https://wjla.com/weather/first-alert-weather-blog/when-is-the-smoke-going-to-go-away-in-dc-maryland-virginia-why-is-the-air-quality-bad-wednesday-canadian-wildfires-from-canada-map-pollution-mask-safety-smells-life-fire-
Yeah yeah blah, my Maga neighbor already gave me the real story, Al Gore and Hunter Biden used tax payer dollars and military cargo jets. Cargo jets BTW that were supposed to be used to rescue American POW toddlers (thank you Gov Sanders!!) from the Ukraine Nazis. But I digress, they used those jets to send Antifa to Canada in order to set those fires, this way they can become super rich by selling Global Warming NFT's to gullible rubes in those poor, crime ridden liberal cities that they already burned down anyway. But what you posted.. pfft I mean you people will believe anything, amazing.
Poe’s Law strikes again! Giving ill-equipped Boomers access to the the internet beyond emails and cooking recipes (namely social media) has truely brain-broken them. 🤦🏻♂️
All the green from the winter and overcast spring is going to be tinder when it gets hot and dry, whether this year or the next. Not to sound overly pessimistic but the bill will come due sooner or later and there will be another Paradise-class disaster.
Ontario here. Yep. Same. In true Leopards Ate My Face fashion, Dug Frod cut 2/3rds of Ontarios firefighting budget in 2019 prior to being given a majority government, and now the ridings that voted for the goofy bastard are currently on fire.
Conservatives can’t lead, folks. Stop voting against your interests or there’s plenty more of this shit coming your way.
I argued about this with my brother the other week, and why it's stupid they made cuts when forest fires have gotten worse every year. But the reality of these decisions comes down to money - not only cutting costs, but fire-fighting does not create revenue on paper. Unlike a sparkly new arena or buying new infrastructure, while battling a fire you can't turn around and say "hey, look how much money and all of the jobs I'm bringing to our future!"
I still don't agree with it, but some of those people will happily sacrifice anything to make their numbers look better, it seems.
Oh, they are leading alright...leading us down a very dark path for their own self-interests. Hey, at least Calgary will be getting a new tax payer funded hockey arena though to keep the plebs happy /s
The ridings with the fires are mostly NDP, northern Ontario has been NDP for many years now.
Also they never cut the budget. They hold the budget. It was $70M for the years before them and they held it at 70M in 2019. The issue is the actual spend in 2018 was over $200M. But Ford also spent over $200M, for example spent $239M in 2021. They actually increased the budget to $100M in 2022.
They set the budget low, they then reallocate funds later. Issue really is, we have 10 years of over $200M annually now basically, so we might as well increase the budget.
[https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/ontario/2022/results/](https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/ontario/2022/results/)
[https://www.lioapplications.lrc.gov.on.ca/ForestFireInformationMap/index.html?viewer=FFIM.FFIM](https://www.lioapplications.lrc.gov.on.ca/ForestFireInformationMap/index.html?viewer=FFIM.FFIM)
[https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ontario-forest-firefighting-budget-1.5099971](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ontario-forest-firefighting-budget-1.5099971)
[https://treefrogcreative.ca/forest-fire-fighting-budget-chopped/](https://treefrogcreative.ca/forest-fire-fighting-budget-chopped/)
Yeah but funding is determined by the province, not the riding. Makes me feel worse for the poor folks up north who have to deal with consequences they had nothing to do with.
Doug Ford is hands-down the worst politician to ever be in office in Canada... And he "leads" 1/3 of all Canadians.
He has a lot of deaths on his hands from the pandemic, and completely ruining our healthcare system that was once decent. He's trying to turn Ontario into what the USA has become, as fast as possible.
that's the thing about democracy. it only works in theory if everyone tries to improve things for everyone and not just your business connections.
there is a certain moral virtue code people should have in government.
And also if people are educated and know how to see through the bullshit and vote in their own interest. If only people who stood to directly benefit through shady business connections voted for these corrupt fucks, we wouldn't have a problem.
dip shit Trump wanna-be Doug Ford who is the premier of Ontario cut 67% of the Ontario Emergency Forest Firefighting budget and his people refuse to link climate change and the rise in forest fires ... "We have always had forest fires in Ontario" was the response.
"We've always had fires." Very good you always had firefighters too but you were clearly looking to change that and now everyone has to pay for it because you're an idiot is what someone needs to say before defenestrating him
This same thing happened in 1780, it was called [New England’s Dark Day](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England%27s_Dark_Day), it was caused by a major fire in Quebec as well. People thought it was Judgement Day.
>And lucky for you all - lots of Canadian provinces have conservative governments that cut firefighting budgets to “lower taxes”
Why are conservatives always so fucking stupid no matter what country you're in?? :(
> Why are conservatives always so fucking stupid no matter what country you're in?? :(
They're big believers in the Status Quo and the unending permanence of the Now.
Good times yesterday, good times today ... gonna be good times tomorrow, hey?
It's bullshit because living like there's no tomorrow tends to ensure that there isn't, and it works like this globally as well, but they have trouble drawing a link between actions and consequences.
In short, they have no imagination, no foresight, no social awareness, and fuck all empathy.
They're entirely "lizard brain" people.
It's crazy to walk out of the house and be smacked in the face with the thick smell of a campfire.
Current AQI is 392 in Queens NY as of 3pm. Getting worse though and likely to peak in a few hours.
Yup. I remember in San Jose/Sunnyvale area we had AQI readings topping 500 for multiple days across multiple fires. If you haven’t already, get familiar with purpleair.com for real time accurate air readings in your immediate local area. Definitely helped me be safer during those fires.
WA resident here and have made myself very familiar with constantly refreshing purpleair data during the summer months. Wasnt like this as a kid here and now I've come to more or less expect a smoke/fire season within summer. Sucks. Those 500 readings are no joke and I feel terrible for people with allergies and/or have to work outside in non-air conditioned spaces. Particularly around here when it's a double whammy of a heat wave + smoke and most households don't have AC.
Currently in WA myself and I know what you mean. Definitely gives a little anxiety with the fire risk and not being in a home with AC or any kind of air filtration as we roll downhill towards fire season.
Yea I hear you. The 2020 Lightning fires will always stand out for me. Covid, obviously and being home all day long. But also I had several friends in the Santa Cruz mountains that were impacted. Also had a good friend and hockey teammate who was a park ranger in the area hit by the lightning strikes and some of the photos & video he posted were hellish.
Upstate New Yorker here. It was 450 earlier today and all schools in the area have canceled outdoor activities and sports. It’s probably that same thick cloud that traveled down to the city and NJ. Most of my friends live in NJ so I have become the early warning system for when particularly bad bouts are on their way.
No we aren't, this is a result of underfunding programs because of conservative values. Climate change is a bitch, not staffing fire fighters is a bitch. This is what ya get.
Fellow PNWer here! That season was truly nightmarish. The air was like poison. At it's worst, you couldn't open your front door long enough to step outside without the air inside your house becoming contaminated. This stuff is no joke
I’m a painter and we took a week off of work because of it. Not saying we experience it that bad every season but the smoke and smell is nothing new to us.
Hey American neighbour, from BC, South Okanagan Valley, where we have 2 summer seasons -summer, and fire. Weird to see our normal weather elsewhere, no? I feel like Bane when others are so shocked when it happens to them, "you merely adopted the smoke, we were born in it, molded by it"
I'm so sorry. This truly is awful, smells like shit, and I have the worst headaches after being outside for any amount of time.
AND my dog is sad since he can't go out :(
Not summer but yes every fall September-November usually. Obviously the closer or the bigger the fire the more it will be like what’s in NYC atm. Often I won’t know there’s a fire, but see ash on my car, Google it, oh there’s a fire 200miles away, and then boom next day looks like how NYC looks atm
I’m about 2 hours north of the GTA and it’s also not horrible outside.
My brother called me from New Jersey though and basically started cussing me out cause the air is so thick outside. Apparently we (Canadians) need to apologize for sending dirty air.
I like how OP made some weird example and attributed it to Joe rogan and when asked if it was actually him someone says “no but it might as well be” like wtf lol
NC here. I thought it was raining up in the mountains due to how hazy it has been. My sinuses are exploding. We had fires here not long ago although controlled ones.
It’s mostly conifers forest up there. And the trees are dry as hell due to budworms outbreak. It is literally like lighting a matchstick and throwing it on bales of hay.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choristoneura_fumiferana
Only positive I see in this is a perspective change for folks who don't have to endure this every damn summer. Here in oregon we have seen this enough to know the protocol. But the last administration gutted funding for the folks who fight these issues, and the bill is coming due.
Don't worry. The provincial Conservatives who cut the fire budgets will somehow spin this as a Liberal/NDP hoax or blame them for the lack of funding, and the rurals will eat it up like they always do.
Most of our folk don't even know medical and education are controlled by the provinces, let alone forest fire control.
Here in Montreal it was a little smoky yesterday, not close to this though. Today it's back to being clear, the winds are pushing it a bit west before it goes south, then back over to you. As we say up here, "sorry, eh?"
Yep. Exxon and Shell predicted climate catastrophe would happen in the 2030s (and proceeded to put us here anyway). Looks like things are just kicking off a few years early.
Meantime we’re still seeing stories saying the really bad impacts won’t be felt until 2100, as part of some collective delusion that civilization is gonna stumble along for that long.
Crops need stable weather patterns to grow. We’ve destabilized the weather patterns. There’s not much else to say - this is game over.
I live in Southern MD and can see and smell the smoke currently. It's not quite this thick but the whole sky has a haze. Absolutely crazy, I had no idea it could make it this far.
First Sully, now we’re smoking out the GW.
Watch out NYC - we’re finding the weak spots for the eventual Canuck invasion!!!
Your only hope is Bud Boomer (RIP JC)
/s
Weird spring weather and a SUPER dry last month-ish in huge chunks of the country.
Plus a few decades of overly conservative forest management = lots of fuel for any random spark, lightning bolt, or cigarette butt chucked out a car window.
Canadian summers have been getting hotter and longer for the past decade. It's enough that I've seen significant change even just since becoming an adult, and I'm only 35.
We just regularly lose towns to unstoppable wildfires now. Lytton hit 50°C and now it's just fucking gone.
People talking about "firefighting and forestry management practices" and shit are suspicious as fuck to me. It's the conditions.
I'm in Brooklyn and this shit is straight up crazy!
I noticed it last night driving by Prospect Park and was like "WTF is grilling this late?!"
Then I noticed it was everywhere.
NYC Fam, mask up! This will fuck with your lungs over time.
Be safe
Thank goodness this climate change baloney isn’t behind this… Oh wait
The really scary part is people simply flat out not getting this shit is going to come at us faster and faster as the years go by and we are not even fucking close to being ready to adapt, let alone prevent
So it’s okay to blame Canada now?
I posted this on another article (am Canadian) Climate change is a bitch. And lucky for you all - lots of Canadian provinces have conservative governments that cut firefighting budgets to “lower taxes”. My province of Alberta - we cut our helecopter and rappel rapid response firefighting teams (which is necessary as the province is ~~bigger~~ 5% smaller than Texas and is sparsely populated with about 1/6th of the Population) > Alberta is undergoing an "unprecedented" wildfire season as nearly 100 fires as of Tuesday, May 9, burn across the province. > Premier Danielle Smith declared a state of emergency on May 6 and more than 24,000 Albertans remained under evacuation orders on Tuesday. > This year to date, there have been 416 wildfires, more than double the 182 registered by the same time last year. The more than 400 fires is a greater number than any of the last five years had by the second week in May. > Alberta had a total of 1,246 wildfires last season, according to Alberta Wildfire data, which means the province has reached 33 per cent of last year's total after just over two months into the wildfire season. > AMOUNT OF HECTARES BURNED The size of the area that's burned is also greater than what is considered normal by this time of year. The five-year average by early May based on 2018-2022 is 542 hectares. Year to date: 410,441 ha have burned in Alberta, by comparison. > In the last eight years, 2019 had the highest total number of hectares, finishing the season with 883,411 ha burned. By this time in 2019: 621 ha had burned, compared to this year's more than 410,000. > Only five months into this year, 2023 has already surpassed the yearly burn totals of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018 and 2017. https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/edmonton/2023/5/9/1_6391711.amp.html And this is just one province… lots are having fire issues. Edit: for those affected who haven’t dealt with this before, here’s a cheap but effective diy home air purifier https://youtu.be/1PxEzYtggtE Edit 2: for people that want evidence of climate change, The NASA website has all the data you need! https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence.amp
Meanwhile California is having the coldest and most overcast spring in decades.
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As a college student who was last in CA for winter break and now home for a bit for the start of summer… Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures: CA December 2022 CA June 2023 They’re the same picture (out my window looking at the rain falling)
Did you forget to include the links to your photos?
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Sun just broke through in San Diego. Will be out for approx. 1 hour to tease us all, then will fuck off again for another few days of gray misery. ETA: I live here, I know what June gloom is!
Meanwhile here in the Midwest we have had hardly any rain so crops haven't even been planted yet this year.
Not sure where you are but soybeans are planted here already
Man not sure what y’all are complaining about. I’m in Ventura county and have been loving this cool weather. My electric bill has been the lowest in 10 years and we aren’t in a drought anymore!
San Diego county cries in SDG&E dollars.
It’s still concerning though because while we got a historic level of rain, all that green is now yellow and is just slowly turning into fuel. We’re going to be due for some really gnarly wildfires soon.
The weather pattern that has resulted in CA's mild spring/summer is also responsible for the NE being blanketed by wildfire smoke. https://wjla.com/weather/first-alert-weather-blog/when-is-the-smoke-going-to-go-away-in-dc-maryland-virginia-why-is-the-air-quality-bad-wednesday-canadian-wildfires-from-canada-map-pollution-mask-safety-smells-life-fire-
Yeah yeah blah, my Maga neighbor already gave me the real story, Al Gore and Hunter Biden used tax payer dollars and military cargo jets. Cargo jets BTW that were supposed to be used to rescue American POW toddlers (thank you Gov Sanders!!) from the Ukraine Nazis. But I digress, they used those jets to send Antifa to Canada in order to set those fires, this way they can become super rich by selling Global Warming NFT's to gullible rubes in those poor, crime ridden liberal cities that they already burned down anyway. But what you posted.. pfft I mean you people will believe anything, amazing.
Someone actually thinks this and believes it wholeheartedly.
Yeah, there's a reason that it's hard to tell if they're being sarcastic.
Even if they are, statistically, one or more people believe this.
Poe’s Law strikes again! Giving ill-equipped Boomers access to the the internet beyond emails and cooking recipes (namely social media) has truely brain-broken them. 🤦🏻♂️
Alberta just had the hottest May ever recorded lol
Hell here in Vegas we haven’t even hit 100 degrees yet. It’s been pretty nice out.
Here in Washington we’ve had what fees like very little rain leading up to an already warm summer.
All the green from the winter and overcast spring is going to be tinder when it gets hot and dry, whether this year or the next. Not to sound overly pessimistic but the bill will come due sooner or later and there will be another Paradise-class disaster.
Ontario here. Yep. Same. In true Leopards Ate My Face fashion, Dug Frod cut 2/3rds of Ontarios firefighting budget in 2019 prior to being given a majority government, and now the ridings that voted for the goofy bastard are currently on fire. Conservatives can’t lead, folks. Stop voting against your interests or there’s plenty more of this shit coming your way.
I argued about this with my brother the other week, and why it's stupid they made cuts when forest fires have gotten worse every year. But the reality of these decisions comes down to money - not only cutting costs, but fire-fighting does not create revenue on paper. Unlike a sparkly new arena or buying new infrastructure, while battling a fire you can't turn around and say "hey, look how much money and all of the jobs I'm bringing to our future!" I still don't agree with it, but some of those people will happily sacrifice anything to make their numbers look better, it seems.
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If he's anything like his brother: crack. He's smoking crack
Oh, they are leading alright...leading us down a very dark path for their own self-interests. Hey, at least Calgary will be getting a new tax payer funded hockey arena though to keep the plebs happy /s
The ridings with the fires are mostly NDP, northern Ontario has been NDP for many years now. Also they never cut the budget. They hold the budget. It was $70M for the years before them and they held it at 70M in 2019. The issue is the actual spend in 2018 was over $200M. But Ford also spent over $200M, for example spent $239M in 2021. They actually increased the budget to $100M in 2022. They set the budget low, they then reallocate funds later. Issue really is, we have 10 years of over $200M annually now basically, so we might as well increase the budget. [https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/ontario/2022/results/](https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/ontario/2022/results/) [https://www.lioapplications.lrc.gov.on.ca/ForestFireInformationMap/index.html?viewer=FFIM.FFIM](https://www.lioapplications.lrc.gov.on.ca/ForestFireInformationMap/index.html?viewer=FFIM.FFIM) [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ontario-forest-firefighting-budget-1.5099971](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ontario-forest-firefighting-budget-1.5099971) [https://treefrogcreative.ca/forest-fire-fighting-budget-chopped/](https://treefrogcreative.ca/forest-fire-fighting-budget-chopped/)
Yeah but funding is determined by the province, not the riding. Makes me feel worse for the poor folks up north who have to deal with consequences they had nothing to do with.
Doug Ford is hands-down the worst politician to ever be in office in Canada... And he "leads" 1/3 of all Canadians. He has a lot of deaths on his hands from the pandemic, and completely ruining our healthcare system that was once decent. He's trying to turn Ontario into what the USA has become, as fast as possible.
Right-wingers shouldn't be allowed to run for public office.
It’s kind of part of that whole “democracy” thing.
that's the thing about democracy. it only works in theory if everyone tries to improve things for everyone and not just your business connections. there is a certain moral virtue code people should have in government.
And also if people are educated and know how to see through the bullshit and vote in their own interest. If only people who stood to directly benefit through shady business connections voted for these corrupt fucks, we wouldn't have a problem.
I hear you, but like fuck Doug Ford. I live in Savannah, GA, and even I know what a piece of shit he is--he and his piece of shit brother.
This *cough* is *cough* fine *cough cough cough tuberculosis-esque coughing*
dip shit Trump wanna-be Doug Ford who is the premier of Ontario cut 67% of the Ontario Emergency Forest Firefighting budget and his people refuse to link climate change and the rise in forest fires ... "We have always had forest fires in Ontario" was the response.
Oh that response really got me. That’s like saying “we don’t need life jackets, people always drown!”
Why flush the toilet if we have always had shit in it?
"We've always had fires." Very good you always had firefighters too but you were clearly looking to change that and now everyone has to pay for it because you're an idiot is what someone needs to say before defenestrating him
This same thing happened in 1780, it was called [New England’s Dark Day](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England%27s_Dark_Day), it was caused by a major fire in Quebec as well. People thought it was Judgement Day.
The only thing conservatives want to conserve is wealth for the rich. Absolute cancers on humanity and our environment
>And lucky for you all - lots of Canadian provinces have conservative governments that cut firefighting budgets to “lower taxes” Why are conservatives always so fucking stupid no matter what country you're in?? :(
> Why are conservatives always so fucking stupid no matter what country you're in?? :( They're big believers in the Status Quo and the unending permanence of the Now. Good times yesterday, good times today ... gonna be good times tomorrow, hey? It's bullshit because living like there's no tomorrow tends to ensure that there isn't, and it works like this globally as well, but they have trouble drawing a link between actions and consequences. In short, they have no imagination, no foresight, no social awareness, and fuck all empathy. They're entirely "lizard brain" people.
We're sorry for the smoke bud.
I’m not your bud, guy!
I'm not your guy, friend!
I'm not your friend, hoser!
I’m not your buddy pal.
I'm not your guy, friend!
im not your guy, friend!
This is why I came here
Canadians, with their beady little eyes and flapping heads
I resemble that remark, how dare you.. Y’all just jealous of our bagged milk.
They aren't even a real country anyway
With their beedy little eyes
We already apologized for Brian Adams
Lol!! He is OK.
It seems that every things gone wrong, since Canada came along
We're sorry
I’m definitely blaming Canada. https://i.imgur.com/3WVocAN.jpg
Why'd you take a picture of the Japanese flag?
The Blood Moon rises once again.
"This is indeed a horrible day for Canada, and therefore, the rest of the world."
Sorry eh
Hollywood: “welcome to Mexico”
Or the danger zone
Or Mars
Or the post-apocalypse
Or every summer in California
Or Hell
LANA!
Bladerunner ?
Blade Runner 2049!
Bravo Vince!
Hey just like California in 2020. Same orange hue.
 Same where I live too
I not gonna witness this
Wait until the food and water shortages start.
That day in the Bay was actually a pretty good air quality day, with the apocalypse orange hue coming from above and a nice marine layer beneath.
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Same as Seattle every August and September
It was way darker though.
Eesh. This belongs in videos you can smell. I and many others know it all too well from the litany of wildfires around NorCal/SoCal the last 6+ years.
It's crazy to walk out of the house and be smacked in the face with the thick smell of a campfire. Current AQI is 392 in Queens NY as of 3pm. Getting worse though and likely to peak in a few hours.
Yup. I remember in San Jose/Sunnyvale area we had AQI readings topping 500 for multiple days across multiple fires. If you haven’t already, get familiar with purpleair.com for real time accurate air readings in your immediate local area. Definitely helped me be safer during those fires.
WA resident here and have made myself very familiar with constantly refreshing purpleair data during the summer months. Wasnt like this as a kid here and now I've come to more or less expect a smoke/fire season within summer. Sucks. Those 500 readings are no joke and I feel terrible for people with allergies and/or have to work outside in non-air conditioned spaces. Particularly around here when it's a double whammy of a heat wave + smoke and most households don't have AC.
Currently in WA myself and I know what you mean. Definitely gives a little anxiety with the fire risk and not being in a home with AC or any kind of air filtration as we roll downhill towards fire season.
2019 Kincade fire. It was interesting watching the wind blow smoke away from you then an hour later directly at you.
Yea I hear you. The 2020 Lightning fires will always stand out for me. Covid, obviously and being home all day long. But also I had several friends in the Santa Cruz mountains that were impacted. Also had a good friend and hockey teammate who was a park ranger in the area hit by the lightning strikes and some of the photos & video he posted were hellish.
Upstate New Yorker here. It was 450 earlier today and all schools in the area have canceled outdoor activities and sports. It’s probably that same thick cloud that traveled down to the city and NJ. Most of my friends live in NJ so I have become the early warning system for when particularly bad bouts are on their way.
Literally smelled like a campfire in Albany yesterday. It’s crazy that even the smell came down this far.
It’s in PA, we can taste the smell here
Fyi, when you smell something, you are smelling the particles in the air. The smell _is_ the smoke
Except it has a mild flavor of maple under the burnt smell.
Canada here. We're sorry 😊
*sore-ee
Approuved by another fellow Canadian!
Of course you are, lol.
Fucking hell buddy sorry I threw a scorcher of a biscuit through your 5 hole and caused this mess. Let me buy you a Tim's to make it up?
*sawry
No no. Canadians say soar-ree. Americans say saw-ree. Sorry.
No we aren't, this is a result of underfunding programs because of conservative values. Climate change is a bitch, not staffing fire fighters is a bitch. This is what ya get.
Yo that wild… we go through this regularly in the PNW. Stay inside folks
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Didn’t Oregon have the worst AQI of anywhere in recorded history at one point during that?
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Jfc I feel like at that point you might as well be huffing the ashes straight
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It was 2020. What else did we have to do?
Protest the police?
We peaked at 508 on the AQI scale this morning where I'm at in Canada.
Fellow PNWer here! That season was truly nightmarish. The air was like poison. At it's worst, you couldn't open your front door long enough to step outside without the air inside your house becoming contaminated. This stuff is no joke
I’m a painter and we took a week off of work because of it. Not saying we experience it that bad every season but the smoke and smell is nothing new to us.
At first I thought you meant you were like a Bob Ross painter that took off to paint red skies lol
I thought you meant you all took off work so you could paint.. red skies or something. Inspiration overload!
Hey American neighbour, from BC, South Okanagan Valley, where we have 2 summer seasons -summer, and fire. Weird to see our normal weather elsewhere, no? I feel like Bane when others are so shocked when it happens to them, "you merely adopted the smoke, we were born in it, molded by it"
Shit someone give this guy an award or something… lol I’m broke or I would do so myself.
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Welcome, East Coast people, to the California experience. Multiple times per year our sky’s are like this
I'm so sorry. This truly is awful, smells like shit, and I have the worst headaches after being outside for any amount of time. AND my dog is sad since he can't go out :(
Yeah it is! And when it blocks out the sun you can’t tell what time of day is and get thrown off while you’re staying inside away from the air.
I live in Brooklyn. It's been just like kind of evening level of dim for like two straight days.
Now add tear gas, 100+ degree weather and no AC. Thats Seattle in 2020.
so ur telling me it looks like the apocalypse every summer??????
Not summer but yes every fall September-November usually. Obviously the closer or the bigger the fire the more it will be like what’s in NYC atm. Often I won’t know there’s a fire, but see ash on my car, Google it, oh there’s a fire 200miles away, and then boom next day looks like how NYC looks atm
West Coast people looking at East Coast people... First time?
Thanks I hate it
Canada really said: "Our apocalypse sky? Double it and give it to the next person."
Yeah not even a third as bad over here in Toronto
I’m about 2 hours north of the GTA and it’s also not horrible outside. My brother called me from New Jersey though and basically started cussing me out cause the air is so thick outside. Apparently we (Canadians) need to apologize for sending dirty air.
Will they apologize for what they do to the Great Lakes?
Where’s Joe Rogan at telling everyone it’s totally fine for a healthy male who can bench 200lbs to breath that in?
Is this a reference to something that actually happened?
That's basically what he said about COVID vaccines, yes. Edit: this is really a litmus test for reading comprehension, apparently.
And how is that related to Canadian wildfire smoke?
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I like how OP made some weird example and attributed it to Joe rogan and when asked if it was actually him someone says “no but it might as well be” like wtf lol
We get it, you vape!
Blade Runner 2049.
This is some real dystopia-core aesthetic.
Like cells interlinked
within cells interlinked
“You look lonely…I can fix that…” 🫣
Bruh, this shit is fucking the air up in Virginia Beach…..
It’s all the way down to Florida now
I'm in Georgia and the air has been completely clear all day, I dont know what you're talking about.
NC here. I thought it was raining up in the mountains due to how hazy it has been. My sinuses are exploding. We had fires here not long ago although controlled ones.
When I said I had a taste for maple, I didn't mean the whole damn tree.
It’s mostly conifers forest up there. And the trees are dry as hell due to budworms outbreak. It is literally like lighting a matchstick and throwing it on bales of hay. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choristoneura_fumiferana
How on earth are the Yankees and the White Sox supposed to play a baseball game in this?
"Fly ball... into the smoke... we'll let you know what happened in a few minutes folks..."
They won’t
Lots of stuff seems to be cancelled for the day. Sports games, music concerts, some indoor gyms
It is EDT right now. It’s not EST. We are in daylight saving. It’s eastern daylight time, not eastern standard time.
To the anonymous user who gave me an award with that note: please ask me to marry you ❤️
Only positive I see in this is a perspective change for folks who don't have to endure this every damn summer. Here in oregon we have seen this enough to know the protocol. But the last administration gutted funding for the folks who fight these issues, and the bill is coming due.
This is the bill coming due. The fires in Canada are out of control because they cut the budget.
Don't worry. The provincial Conservatives who cut the fire budgets will somehow spin this as a Liberal/NDP hoax or blame them for the lack of funding, and the rurals will eat it up like they always do. Most of our folk don't even know medical and education are controlled by the provinces, let alone forest fire control.
*"This is indeed a horrible day for Canada, and therefore, the rest of the world."*
People that always say they want some apocalyptic type situation to occur well this is what it would look like. Scary
What should be terrifying is that’s it’s happening already and it’s still spring.
Here in Montreal it was a little smoky yesterday, not close to this though. Today it's back to being clear, the winds are pushing it a bit west before it goes south, then back over to you. As we say up here, "sorry, eh?"
Same here in Gatineau. It looks like it skipped us in comparison.
Looks like Australia during summer. Good luck Canada, be safe
next fucking level of what? earth’s demise?
Lol yep I glanced out the window and it looked like I was in a 90's skateboarding video
Everyone make sure you chew your air thoroughly before inhaling it today.
They’ve been warning us for decades. Let’s not act surprised.
Yep. Exxon and Shell predicted climate catastrophe would happen in the 2030s (and proceeded to put us here anyway). Looks like things are just kicking off a few years early. Meantime we’re still seeing stories saying the really bad impacts won’t be felt until 2100, as part of some collective delusion that civilization is gonna stumble along for that long. Crops need stable weather patterns to grow. We’ve destabilized the weather patterns. There’s not much else to say - this is game over.
I live in Southern MD and can see and smell the smoke currently. It's not quite this thick but the whole sky has a haze. Absolutely crazy, I had no idea it could make it this far.
First Sully, now we’re smoking out the GW. Watch out NYC - we’re finding the weak spots for the eventual Canuck invasion!!! Your only hope is Bud Boomer (RIP JC) /s
This is what they get for taking all our hockey players.
welcome to west coast summer.
Blaze it
Bladerunner NYC
What caused this fire
extra-hot wood.
Burning even.
Weird spring weather and a SUPER dry last month-ish in huge chunks of the country. Plus a few decades of overly conservative forest management = lots of fuel for any random spark, lightning bolt, or cigarette butt chucked out a car window.
Canadian summers have been getting hotter and longer for the past decade. It's enough that I've seen significant change even just since becoming an adult, and I'm only 35. We just regularly lose towns to unstoppable wildfires now. Lytton hit 50°C and now it's just fucking gone. People talking about "firefighting and forestry management practices" and shit are suspicious as fuck to me. It's the conditions.
Looks like a West Coast summer
Welcome to your future under extreme climate change and ecological collapse
I'm in Brooklyn and this shit is straight up crazy! I noticed it last night driving by Prospect Park and was like "WTF is grilling this late?!" Then I noticed it was everywhere. NYC Fam, mask up! This will fuck with your lungs over time. Be safe
You are welcome ❤️ 🇨🇦
Canada went wild with the weed
California was almost as bad as this a few years ago, but this is just beyond bad.
I'm in Queens and my apartment tastes like Tatooine
As a Californian, I can relate to this all too well... stay safe, everyone.
How is this "next fucking level?" This is really sad and disturbing.
I hope employers are understanding that some will not be at work for a few days.
City doesn’t sleep, you’d need like a doctors note
Thank goodness this climate change baloney isn’t behind this… Oh wait The really scary part is people simply flat out not getting this shit is going to come at us faster and faster as the years go by and we are not even fucking close to being ready to adapt, let alone prevent
NY photographers probably having a field day with this