I hope the entire summer is not like this.
I've mentioned in here the past few days about how haze from Canadian wildfires has been in our sky. Well, yesterday it left the sky and came to the ground--
After a wind shift yesterday morning the smoke invaded the area. You couldn't see more than four blocks, the entire city smelled like a strong campfire, and the Air Quality Index shot up past 150, meaning it wasn't safe for people to be outdoors.
And that's from a fire that's almost 1,000 miles away/.
I feel for Canadians; I really do. To have large swaths of your country on fire every summer can not be a fun thing. And then to have smoke from that fire end up covering a large swath of the continent to the extent that it did here must be even worse. Two years ago fires in the Great White North led to hazy skies and colorful sunsets down here.
Now they're leading to visibility hazards and breathing difficulties,.
I know we're getting the smoke so bad because of a weird Jet Stream at the moment. It's so weird, in fact, that there's haze in the air as far south as Florida. Hopefully, the Jet Stream shifts course soon. If not, we're stuck with this for an extended time. And I don't know how we might handle it if we can't go outside without choking, have whatever summer sun we might get blocked, and if you can't even sniff lilacs because all you smell is fire.
Because that's not much of a summer.
Hopefully this is just a temporary deal. Hopefully, the fire is extinguished soon or the Jet Stream moves. Hopefully, our summer won't be too affected by this. Because if it is, the would suck. And it would be yet another sign that our world's on fire.
In this case, I'm not speaking metaphorically. This this case, the world is, literally, on fire. At least our little part of it.
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