This only started happening in Missouri in the past 5 years. I'm not sure if they're getting it now (moved NE last year) but it never did this where I was at in my 20s or teen years.
I'm in California. We commiserate and have empathy for everyone dealing with this. It fucking sucks. Devastating for those who lose homes and businesses.
Yep, definitely feels like the new normal here. This one is worse than previous years, probably because of proximity, but it's still terrible other years.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic but even if it was only organic matter, putting carcinogens in your lungs is unhealthy in any amount, it's especially bad in large amounts.Ā
But the answer to your question is no, it's not just organic smoke. While I don't believe these have been as destructive as the CA wildfires some years back, I don't know the numbers but there's almost certainly lots of structure fires happening which means all kinds of chemicals, gasses and even metals are mixing in there as well. Yes, metals.Ā
And full of red ants. My buddy and i had a nice fire one night and he grabbed some old logs and threw em in. He was covered in red ants. They survived the fire behind a log that only mostly burned, remembered it was i who took part in their demise and invaded my bulkhead. I had to use paint stripper in a spray bottle to stop them.
Im sure they are just biding their time until their numbers are sufficient to try again
I went to work this morning (metro Detroit area) and within the first hour of being there we were sent home (with pay) because it was so bad. Itās even worse now. Weāre at 500 on the AQI right now.
It's definitely fluctuating a lot today. Northern Wisconsin here, and we awoke to fire alarms and AQI at 756. But now it's down quite a bit. Hoping for rain on the fires, and wind away from the fires to help dissipate this crap.
some friends in mqt said it hit 1000 yesterday. there was ash in the air looking like snow. had a camping trip planned up in the Keweenaw, guess im not going. im happy in my house that has moderately less smoke.
Damn! I wish Iād be sent home. Luckily, weāve been working in the shop all week as opposed to in the field doing installs. Especially considering the heat.
Yeah I went outside last night in Wisconsin and thought there was a battery fire or something lol. Put a new air filter on our a c system and staying inside today
AC filter doesnāt get the small PM2.5 air pollution that comes with wildfire smoke, but better than nothing I guess.
Out here on the west coast, almost everyone I know owns an air purifier that can handle the PM2.5 after fires became a regular occurrence in the last decade or so
The Detroit Metro area is having a problem right now, building systems are automatically reporting fires in the building to fire departments because their smoke detectors inside the buildings tripped, from the smoke outside getting in.
Happened in my building and they played it off as a test. In the past, they've always said there'll be a test days in advance, so we all knew it was bullshit claiming it was a test this morning.
Going outside it feels like youāre standing right in front of a bonfire. Not to the side of it, not standing 10 feet back from it. Right in front of it.
I'm on break at work, I keep seeing people pass by in their cars with the windows open on both sides. I am absolutely astounded. The air quality is 375 where I live. I can barely breathe and I'm inside the building.
It's almost everyone, so if that means everyone is poor, then that's a damn shame. Also I'd understand it more if more people just had them like, halfway down. I know not everyone has sensitive lungs but again, it's BAD out there, idk how they can take it.
Yea Iāll just say Iām in DEEP purple or maroon or whatever that shows on the map. And literally yesterday was 100% looking like Mexico in every movie or tv show. The sky was YELLOW AND HAZY as fuck man.
I feel fully vindicated though. My wife thought I was an idiot that I bought the best hvac air filters last month for the next year, and spent like $120 on them. And that I bought a 3rd air purifier for our only 1500 sq ft house cause itās a weird layout. Have one in the nursery, one where her office is and one near my office. Guess whoās the smartest husband on earth now according to her!? I need to get it in writing.
I'm in Central NY; a little west of Syracuse. It is AWFUL. Smells like a forest fire if the forest was literally next door. This picture doesn't do it justice and its gotten worse since I took this earlier this morning.
Something to note is that modern phone cameras all use AI enhancement, which will try to clean up the smoke in the photo. Using something like Open Camera will get you closer to what you actually saw, since it bypasses the phones AI processing.
Ticks that make you allergic to meat, then an explosive diarrhea parasite, and now wildfire smoke choking everyone out. This summer feels like the apocalypse.
Detroit area. Taken an hour after sunrise. My iPad was struggling to color correct because it wanted the sky to be blue, I think, but the sun was pretty close to that color. It's unbelievable what it looks like out there right now.
This pic reminds me that last year we had similar smoke conditions where I live and The sun looked just like that, maybe a little less red. I was driving to work and the sun was in the dark tint strip at the top of my windshield and I could actually see the sunspots on the sun with the naked eye (through the tint). I was so surprised and enamored I almost rear ended a car in front of me.
Growing up in the 90s, I remember all the stories about the emissions from the manufacturers in the rust belt was contributing to the excessive acid rain in Canada.
The ridiculous amount of people genuinely mad at Canada for wildfire smoke is concerning. Homes are burning, we aren't receiving much support, and you're whining about smoke. At least we sent help when the states had fires.
Our āleadersā should be working together to combat these things, or at least mitigate them, but lining their pockets at the expense of millions of lives is more important to them.
I'm currently packing to move and seriously regretting packing up my old N95 respirator from COVID times. Sure wish I could remember which box I put it in.
Wisconsinite here, itās absolutely terrible outside. You can taste the smoke in your lungs at this point. The haze and smoke is so bad itās actually making its way into the buildings. People are walking into work coffing and rubbing their eyes. This is the worst Iāve ever seen it in my life (as I rub my eyes to actually see).
Can confirm, the air quality here is abysmal. My indoor air quality peaked at 217 Āµg/mĀ³ yesterday and I had to turn on my furnace to get it down. Still hovering in the 80s though inside and outside... 400s.
I'm on vacation this week at my cabin in northern MI and let me tell you... being stuck inside with no AC for two days instead of playing on the lake is way more than mildly infuriating š
I really wish more assistance was given by the US government to put out or contain the fires since itās affecting millions of Americans.
What should also be done is an economic study to determine the economic impact of bad air quality from wildfires. I would imagine that less people would go out to eat, go to outdoor events, or just leave their house in general and prevent money from being spent.
Come on now. The current US government is never going to do anything that would help Americans. I wouldn't be surprised if somehow trump is profiting from this.
Just shitting my brains out with a cyclospora infection while dying of smoke inhalation from a massive climate change fire, 2026 is fucking awesome guys.
I am in Metro Detroit. It's really bad. It's like 566/500 atm. I stepped outside for a bit and it smelt like I was standing directly over a burning pile of leaves.
This <2.5 micron particulate matter passing into your bloodstream is brought to you by the fine folks of The American Petroleum Institute.Ā They've working day and night to ensure that if a dollar can be made, it will burn for today and future generations.
From Southern California, often an epicenter of fires, quakes, and other natural disasters, I wanna hug everybody through my tears. We all, well many of us, deserve better leaders, and my country has been shameless in this lately/usually. Such cowards. I think what we could try to accomplish if we had leaders who loved living things.
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u/oooriole09 21h ago
Turns out forest fire smoke isnāt good to breathe.