You know most of Minnesota is totally on your side. We like Canada. So why are you trying to smoke us out?
I’m out on my daily walk, and can see the haze everywhere. We had a short, weird thunderstorm yesterday — about an hour of dark clouds, heavy rainfall, high winds, and thunder & lightning that disappeared as quickly as it appeared — but it didn’t help clear the air. Winnipeg must be even worse off.
I think I’ll just have to hold my breath while I walk home.
Feeling the effects here in NE Iowa. Mowed the yard yesterday and smelled something burning. I thought it might have been something on my mower. Turns out it was just the air. My nose and eyes were irritated all night. Steady rain today. I hope it clears the air better than it did in Morris.
As a Canadian I’d like to say we’re sorry…we forgot to rake the forest last month like Trump suggested and well…POOF!!
Same here in Fargo. It was like a heavy mist that wasn’t being cleared by the strong winds blowing through.
We have it here in Wisconsin. I can’t complain: Canada has it a lot worse right now.
#NotJustCanada
A cloud of Sahara dust is smothering the Caribbean en route to the U.S.
Wildfires again?! Last time Canada had those I got some sort of interstitial lung disease from the secondhand smoke, and I’m in Northern Virginia! All the doctors kept asking me how much I smoked, which NEVER happened before, even when I was smoking weed every day.
Combined with Saharan dust the Canadian smoke may help suppress any early Atlantic basin tropical activity. Please send more!
Hemidactylus, “As of Tuesday afternoon, there were 57 fires burning in the province, with 27 of them classified as out-of-control. Over 490,000 hectares have burned in Alberta so far in 2025.”
How much more area do you request gets burned down for that?
Bloody Jewish space lasers. Hasn’t Marj figured out a way of knocking them down from orbit yet? She seems like just the person for the task.
“I’m a firm believer that heroism doesn’t automatically imply rugged”, said Ilmardan, “Adventuring is hemmed round with all kinds of stereotypes and presumptions, but in this modern world of magic and mechanisms it’s really not the big guys with swords who run the show anymore. I certainly prefer my creature comforts to muddy sojourns in tents on blasted heaths and in the dark beneath the world. Why can’t we have both! Besides, the best adventurer I ever met was a three foot water sprite with an eye for tactics and a mean number in elemental magicks. Appearances can be deceiving. Except mine, of course, all my illusions are to be trusted without question!”
“Oh well, offer’s always open if you change your minds. I think we’re meeting in the main foyer at 7.30.”
Oops, wrong thread. That was for Life’s A Gas. Apologies.
John Morales @8
Well it probably won’t have much of an effect on early CAG activity anyway nor peak season Cape Verde seeds/MDR nor late season CAG.
I love canada
Well the Canadian weather folks have a handy map up at https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/ which will give you an idea of when the worst will arrive.
Here on the west coast of B.C. we have had plenty of smoke in previous years, but so far this year the fires are inland and to the far north, so the prevailing winds blow it your way and our air is clear for the nonce. Our turn will come again, I am sure.
Thousands of people are displaced – I have family members in the evac zone whom we haven’t heard from in three days.
But sorry for the minor inconvenience you are experiencing, I guess?
@15 – I wouldn’t call choking smoke a “minor” inconvenience, especially for the old or those with lung problems. It may be minor compared to losing your home, of course, but a forced hospital stay because you can’t get your breath is a pretty big deal to most of us.
And it can be life threatening to those with lung disease. Dying from smoke choking you, or losing your home and livelihood both seem like pretty big deals to me.
If we ask the aliens that control the world, maybe they can remove much of the low-altitude atmospheric oxygen in those regions? I am told the oxygen level of the atmosphere does not need to drop many percentage points to stop fires from starting.
@5: Yeah, I want a refund for this year entirely. Everything about it sucks truck nuts.
@16 at no point did PZ say he was chocking – he said it was hazy.
@19
PZ isn’t the only person who lives in the area and is, hopefully, relatively healthy. There are likely many people who are much more vulnerable to poor air quality.
On a related topic, I see all these weather disasters, the complete roller coaster of weather we experience, all the places threatened by sea level rise, the Swiss village swallowed up by the glacier, most of the midwest underwater* the sargasso sea crawling on shore and yet the MAIMSLIME NEWS never mentions Climate Change or the fossil fuel f*ckheads that are mightily contributing to it. WTF!
*decades ago there was a huge flood control channel created in wichita, KS. They promised it would make it impossible for wichita to ever flood again. And, just yesterday most of wichita was up to it’s lower sphincter in floodwaters.