Not So Holy Smoke

OMG it’s bad outside and it’s even worse around St. Cloud. I was going to mow the yard but it stinks like burning plastic out there. Thanks Canada!

Like going to the bars in the 80s!

I’m in St Cloud now. The further North you go, the worse.

Sure it isn’t downtown MSP? Here is a good map. https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

45 miles NW off St Cloud. Looks worse to the naked eye than the phone.

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Supposed to hit Iowa soon. Not looking forward to that.

Yeah it’s a heavy smoke smell today. Are the fires even close to burning out yet?

Some of y’all never hotboxed and it really shows.

Hudson wasn’t too bad today, drove back to NoMi here and shes thick!

Deuces wrote:

Some of y’all never hotboxed and it really shows.

Hudson wasn’t too bad today, drove back to NoMi here and shes thick!

Haha I saw someone posted elsewhere, it’s too bad this smoke isn’t blowing in from Colorado….

lindyrig79 wrote:

Yeah it’s a heavy smoke smell today. Are the fires even close to burning out yet?

No. Still tinder dry up here.

tim hurley wrote:

Like going to the bars in the 80s!

Woke up to the smell of smoke at 4:30 this morning. By 9 am it was perfect outside. Just did a bit of fishing (4 pike) and lunch at Thunderbird. Near perfect in Gods country today. 75 degrees right now, mostly clear, ENE wind @ 6.

It was less than a mile visibility around Brainerd this morning, smoke smell even inside buildings, but considerably better now.

Mighty smokey in the metro. In my 39 years I’ve never experienced it this bad in the state of MN.

Have a new girl at work who transferred from L.A. she said she thought she left all this bad air quality and heat behind

Smells like the cabin outside. Strange for sure but not letting it get me down. Drought and fire are parts of natural cycles, but given the last 18 months, sometimes it all kind feels like “now what?”. Not going to run a marathon today or anything , but I wouldn’t do that under normal conditions, either.

Was up in Crosslake last week and one day you couldn’t even see 1/4 mile. Smell was horrid.

Today is bad, but not last week bad.

Here is the current smoke layer

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Damn. North of kenora.

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Here’s a snapshot of the fires here in Manitoba.

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Yeah, just a few fires going on up there (and plenty in the western US).

Click on “Overlays” and select “Active Fires” if nothing shows up.

https://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/interactive-map?zoom=0.17129097697971912&center=-653840.6260392326%2C514584.8871058333&month=7&day=28&year=2021#iMap

Cameron,
What does monitored mean? On the way up or on the way down.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

Cameron,
What does monitored mean? On the way up or on the way down.

Means they are watching, but no active fire suppression measures ongoing.

Cameron white wrote:

Means they are watching, but no active fire suppression measures ongoing.

I think some of these fires are so remote and it’s hard to get enough fire fighting resources to them to be effective. IF they’re not threatening population, then they just let nature take its course and make a control plan for IF they spread to the point where people/homes are threatened. Plus with the number of fires going, they have to pick and choose where to expend those resources.

ThunderLund78 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Cameron white wrote:</div>
Means they are watching, but no active fire suppression measures ongoing.

I think some of these fires are so remote and it’s hard to get enough fire fighting resources to them to be effective. IF they’re not threatening population, then they just let nature take its course and make a control plan for IF they spread to the point where people/homes are threatened. Plus with the number of fires going, they have to pick and choose where to expend those resources.

You are 100 percent correct. They are concentrating resources on protecting property, and the two main hydro transmission lines that take power to Minnesota and all states east.

The smell yesterday would indicate that it wasn’t just forest burning. Reminded me of the Becker scrap yard fire.

No joke – last night we had windows closed and AC on. We could still smell it faintly in the house. At about 10:30, my wife and I were both in bed and almost asleep and our bedroom detector went off. We have three hard wired detectors that are connected and a few that are on their own. Our bedroom detector is on its own so that’s the one in which the sensor tripped. Top floor and on the north side of the house – I’m pretty sure it just got enough of a wiff of something.

It’s a 10yr lifespan internal battery and it’s year-and-a-half old. Has not made any indications of failure etc. and tests fine. Did a walkthrough of the entire house to be safe – all good. Can’t help but think it’s not coincidental.

I just hung 3 racks of ribs out on the cloth line, they should be smoked by about 10:00 pm tonight.

The past three weeks it’s been hard to see pelican island from stony point many days. All these fires make me wonder why the point of all the emissions crap in our vehicles is for

Because automobile emissions are something you can control and the wildfire smoke isn’t 365 days a year.

This is us here this afternoon.

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gimp wrote:

I just hung 3 racks of ribs out on the cloth line, they should be smoked by about 10:00 pm tonight.

How did the ribs turn out?