Smoke filled sky

[JackC]

First photo is yesterday morning with smoke from fires in Northern Alberta blocking the sun. Second shot is sunset yesterday with clouds and smoke in the air. Not great photos but really show what the air was like yesterday. Still smokey today but much better.

 

[Only RF]

Heading our way. They issued air quality warnings for this afternoon.

 

[chipman]

In SW ND now. Trees at 500 feet -

 

[JackC]

Looks just like that here! Amazing how it can travel.

 

[MikeZ]

The smoke has had minor effects on the East coast as well. No where near as bad as those photos, but a slight haze in the sky.

 

[chipman]

55 minutes before sunset last night -

Local news -
Usually, North Dakota’s air quality measurements are in the single digits on the Air Quality Index. Wednesday, Beulah recorded an AQI of more than 1,000.

“I thought this morning that we had analyzers that weren’t functioning correctly because I had never seen these kinds of numbers before,” said Ryan Mills with the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Air Quality.

 

[John Photo]

Ther's a lot of high haze in northern Indiana attributed to the fires in Canada.

 

[NorthernGal]

Oh wow, this brings back memories of several years back when we had fires close to us. It's amazing what that smoke does to the atmosphere.

Take care of your lungs!!