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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt smells like firewood out there
You leave your home or workplace and it smells like you're standing next to a campfire.
The air is thick and smokey.
Worse than last year.
strongermessage
(322 posts)My eyes actually started to water when I went outside this morning.
SheltieLover
(83,445 posts)Ocelot II
(132,117 posts)It's nasty.
31j20b3
(328 posts)Can't say it smells as good as firewood, it's more a sort of thick, green-wood smoke look and smell around me.
Sort of like the way the highway ditch smells when I burn weeds once a summer
ProudMNDemocrat
(21,059 posts)Very hazy and the thick smell of burning wood.
Chasstev365
(8,592 posts)(In the Chicago area)
Prairie Gates
(8,834 posts)I also agree with everyone above who says it doesn't smell as nice as just a plain old campfire. There's a rot and a bad juju to it, now that y'all mention it.
Karma13612
(5,071 posts)Near the Canadian border. We are in the country.
Yesterday we woke up to a sky so orange I thought I was tripping.
Air quality was terrible.
This morning, the sky is back to normal color, but pale and hazy. The campfire smell is still here, but not as strong. My throat continues to feel scratchy, and I keep feeling the need to cough. I am hoping it blows thru soon. I have lung issues, and its a lovely temperature where I normally like to leave all the windows open so we can air out the musty smell of our old house. Im inside, windows all closed, wearing a mask.
And we have been getting so much heat and humidity that we dont usually get until August. It is not conducive to being outside, even on nice clean air days.
Thank you global warming deniers. Hope you are happy. And since you all ALSO dont believe in wearing masks
.good luck.
H2O Man
(79,554 posts)I feel like I have smoked a carton of Canadian Wildfires.
mwmisses4289
(5,407 posts)31j20b3
(328 posts)It's my impression from wathing the smoke movement that Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan are getting a lot from that source
Cadfael
(1,395 posts)The AQI is 395 as of 11 am
doc03
(39,275 posts)smell wood burning. Not as bad as year yet.
mwmisses4289
(5,407 posts)Found this map on the u.s.a. today website.
https://data.usatoday.com/fires/
The u.s and Canada are on fire, and not in a good way!
calimary
(91,799 posts)Absolutely TERRIFYING!
livetohike
(24,559 posts)OH and PA are complaining about the smoke. The pictures they are posting on Facebook are unbelievable.
Diamond_Dog
(41,690 posts)A friend said it smells like burnt Taco Bell. Whatever it is, its nasty, its making the sky overcast and the air is foggy. Its much worse than I remember from 2023.
livetohike
(24,559 posts)the house. Now would be a good time to use those Covid masks if you absolutely have to go outside.
Diamond_Dog
(41,690 posts)According to Air.gov, we are in the Hazardous category.
No one should go out! I took my Sophie dog out and it made my eyes itch.
Talitha
(8,302 posts)Maybe the icky smell others detect is from urban areas' pollution being mixed with the smoke?
Prairie Gates
(8,834 posts)I was so struck by the burning wood smell that it took me a little while to detect the other particulate matter.
WhiskeyGrinder
(27,516 posts)legallyblondeNYC
(241 posts)We're just north of the Bronx / NYC.
Yes, it's rather icky.
niyad
(135,976 posts)can frequently smell, and taste, the smoke. I am thankful that I have no serious respiratory issues, just my throat and eyes burning. The Aspen Acres fire alone is over 100,000 acres, over 150 square miles. .an area roughly the size of Denver.
Figarosmom
(15,327 posts)BH liberal
(232 posts)and not likely to improve any time soon.
Bumbles
(655 posts)PJMcK
(25,283 posts)Yesterday, we were in Oyster Bay, Long Island about an hour east of NYC.
The scent of a fire was moderate and the smoke colored the sky a light reddish-brown.
Quite creepy.
twodogsbarking
(20,161 posts)Smokey in central Pa. Like a restaurant in 1972,
twodogsbarking
(20,161 posts)Response to Prairie Gates (Original post)
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Mossfern
(4,948 posts)It's starting to look and smell dystopian here.
Air quality this morning was 150, now at 114
I'm one of those sensitive people who have difficulty breathing.
When I was at an appointment today, my voice was raspy, but throat not sore.
I have a meeting tonight - I think I'll opt out.