Wow.
Wildfire smoke has drifted all the way to Pennsylvania.
Mind you, there’s a big difference between wildfire smoke and dense wildfire smoke. If the smoke here looked like the smoke over Pennsylvania I’d be out taking a two hour walk after all this being locked up inside.
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8 responses to “Ramblin’ smoke”
Yes, they said on the weather it had made it to Nebraska. We do have a visible haze, but that’s all. We may end up having to close our windows because of my asthma. I would not want to be on the west coast right now.
Holy shit! I live in an area of the city where I often smell things cooking and sometimes with a burn like a grill or whatever so general burning odors aren’t particularly note worthy. A couple days ago already I caught a whiff of what I thought might be a house fire but it never occurred to me it could be the west coast.
Yeah, we were just informed that our area is expected to have smoke settling near the surface tomorrow because of a unique weather condition (I wish they would have said what it was; as an Environmental Scientist, and someone who teaches Earth Science, I find such things fascinating). Anyway, they are sending out an alert for our town (but not the other towns locally, so it must be very regional phenomenon), so I probably will have to close up the house tomorrow.
I’m currently about 25 miles from a fire in the valley… It really is something else
Iknklast, I’m not sure, but on our news/weather last night they were talking about the fires on the US West Coast and mentioned that part of the issue was that the jet stream had stayed further north than usual this summer, resulting in hotter/dryer conditions. They were forecasting relief coming in the next 1-2 weeks because of a shift, and showed a graphic that showed the jet stream diverting sharply southward over what looked like your part of the continent. I’m surprised that would be so precisely regional in effect for smoke for you though, given that you’re pretty flat really. In my part of the world we can get strong vertical mixing, but that’s because we have strong winds crossing mountains.
Rob, that makes sense. I looked it up, and it is coming in behind a cold front. And the odd distribution is a function of someone reporting things weird; it is the entire southwest to south central portion of the state; the plume is supposed to end just east of us.
Jeez, Blood Knight – take care of yourself.
Sorry about the typo’s at @5, I was tired.
BKiSA, stay safe and have a plan. We had a large fire on the hills near us in 2017(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Port_Hills_fires), which is not something we’re used to. At the height of the fire the flame front came within 2km of us and just 1.5km from suburbia. There were a lot of nervous people I can tell you, me included. Luckily our fires don’t seem to move at the terrifying speed that yours do. Or maybe we got lucky. Anyway, all the best.