Snowing ashes in the Keweenaw

mezz

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Canadian wildfires are wreaking havoc in the air here in the Keweenaw. There is actually ash falling from the sky & the haze is crazy thick as well as the smoke smell, it's like it is in our back yards! Looks to continue like this through tomorrow (Thursday). Can't even see across Torch Lake!
Wildfire smoke 1 in the Keweenaw 7-15-26.jpg
Wildfire smoke 2 in the Keweenaw 7-15-26.jpg
 

rph130

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Made it all the way down to Chicago this morning. Walking outside is like walking into an oven to begin with and now we have the campfire smell to go with the heat.
 

mezz

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Here is a pic from this morning. You can't even see the closest shoreline about 300 yd away. Forget out on the open water
 

dfattack

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It's so annoying. Boat was covering in ashes, my Mom is having a hard time breathing, eyes burning...It's becoming an annual thing now and to be honest it pisses me off. When I researched this last year or the last time this happened it appears Canada has changed their forest fire policy to let it burn unless the fire will impact (burn) a nearby town. Well HELLO how about half of country?! IF the let it burn policy is true are we supposed to just deal with it? come on man...

oh and by the way whenever I look at the radar this same area with the fires is also getting rain. I don't understand that. I know lightening strikes a tree boom forest fire. But doesn't rain (water) put out fires?

none of this makes sense to me. I grew up as most of you did in the summer in the north woods. NEVER remember having this issue with forest fires in another country causing so much problems.
 
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