Both Anchorage and Fairbanks Thursday morning in the zone for high level smoke haze the originated from wildfire in central Canada. More substantial smoke from the northern BC fires is possible Friday over the Haines/Skagway area in northern Southeast Alaska. #akwx #Wildfire #Smoke @Climatologist49 @seachanger
Another pretty picture of last night's lovely full Moon, which wandered low and yellow across the southern sky all night long.
June 10, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.
With #wildfires raging across large areas of Western Canada (none really close to me, but a few not that far in the bigger picture- couple hours drive or less?) it was inevitable that the smoke would reach us sooner or later depending on wind patterns. Late last week we started to get a bit of haze peaking a couple of days over the #weekend with strong visible #smoke and smell. Views from the #commute to work on Saturday #Alberta #Canada #landscape #June #photography
Understanding Canadian Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) & Wildfire Smoke
Wildfire smoke consists of toxic gases and particulate matter (PM) when breathed in gets into our lungs, bloodstream, and even our brain. 
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A colorful sun from Friday night's smoky sunset.
June 6, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.
A very orange tint to the #moon over South Cambridgeshire tonight as the #smoke plume from the Canadian #wildfires drifts across England.
Taken with 400 mm lens on micro 4/3 camera (equivalent to 800 mm on 35 mm camera), ISO 3200, f7.1, 1/125 s
#nofilter
So who's coming up with the innovation that's going to allow me to drink my coffee on the porch without getting a headache from the #wildfiresmoke ?
Today's AQI beats yesterday's, which was "hide inside near the air purifier," but it's still not "sit on the porch" good.
We all could burn less fossil fuel, of course. Anyone? Anyone?
I can confirm via Patioboater's Crappy Lungs-o-meter(TM) that the air quality outside in this smokey sunset is terrible.
Pretty sunset, tho'.
June 2, 2025. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.
The sun, in Montréal 
Looks like a 9+ Air Quality Health Index image.
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Le soleil, à Montréal
Cela semble un indice de la qualité de l’air de 9+
If your Air Purifier suddenly stops working and you notice the change filter light illuminated , but you remember it was recently changed try this:
Take it apart, then examine and gently clean the sensor .
Reassemble and reset, then it might work again.
@patioboater Objection: When I step outside here (just north of #Detroit) and breathe in this air, my palate feels remarkably unclean no matter how many of your picture I see.
4-Jun-2025
Fluorescent light reveals invisible #smoke at high altitudes - as currently from Canadian #wildfires across Europe
#ForestFires could have a greater impact on clouds and #climate than previously assumed
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1086300
Special air quality statement issued for most of Ontario as wildfire smoke expected overnight
If you're in an area getting smoke from the Canadian wildfires, here's an additional reason to take precautions, like masking up:
"There’s much more to wildfire smoke than charred sticks and leaves, especially where these blazes are burning in Canada. The country’s forests have long been mined, operations that loaded soils and waterways with toxic metals like lead and mercury, especially before clean-air standards kicked in 50 years ago.
"Now everyone downwind of these wildfires may have to contend with that legacy and those pollutants, in addition to all the other nasties inherent in wildfire smoke."
"What exactly is lurking in the smoke from Canadian wildfires will require further testing by scientists."
https://grist.org/climate/canada-wildfire-smoke-toxic-arsenic/
I didn't know the Air Quality Index (AQI) went this high. Terrible conditions up in the Canadian prairies. #wildfires #smoke #AirQuality #Canada
https://fire.airnow.gov/#9.34/54.9792/-102.6261
As northern states were dealing w/ #smoke, a large plume of #Saharan #dust is expected to spread over #GulfCoast states through Thurs. Chenard said the dust had reached parts of #Florida by Wed morning, & was expected to intensify.
“The highest concentrations of the dust is definitely going to be through today & tonight,” he said. “But there will be some at least lower concentrations that linger over Florida, probably into the weekend.”
Marc Chenard, a meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center, said satellite imagery shows a broad swath of #smoke still covering the eastern US on Wednesday. The smoke stretches from northern #Georgia to #NewEngland & into the Upper #Midwest.
#AirQuality readings in cities including #Minneapolis, #StPaul & #Columbus, #Ohio, were at “very unhealthy” levels… acc/to the NYT air quality tracker.
#ClimateCrisis #Climate #air #pollution #PublicHealth #RespiratoryIllnesses
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/weather/air-quality-wildfire-smoke-sahara-dust.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=4A04536C-B093-4F24-A406-EC910D453D31
Dr. Rachel Strykowski, a #pulmonologist, said the poor #AirQuality increases #respiratory symptoms aggravated by the dirty #air. Typical symptoms include increase in shortness of breath, wheezing, coughing, & flares of underlying #disease such as #COPD & #asthma.
The fine particulate matter from the #wildfire #smoke triggers more inflammation in patients’ airways, aggravating underlying #medical conditions.
#Smoke from #wildfires in #Canada carried another day of poor #AirQuality south of the border to the #Midwest, where conditions in parts of #Minnesota, #Wisconsin & #Michigan were rated “very unhealthy” Tuesday.
The fires have forced more than 27,000 Canadians in three provinces to flee their homes, & the smoke has even reached #Europe.
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Bill Cole 
