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The smoke from the western fires is now overhead here. How about where you live?

Posted - September 14, 2020

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  • 16264
    Thankfully our fire season hasn't started yet. I don't know if we'll get any bad ones this year - there's scarcely any fuel left to burn.
      September 14, 2020 5:33 PM MDT
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  • 10049
    Yes. 
      September 14, 2020 5:42 PM MDT
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  • 339
    Its bad here.

    Portland 9:17 am :

    Springfield yesterday :

    And the real horror - MY HAIR SMELLS LIKE SMOKE!!


      September 14, 2020 5:46 PM MDT
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  • 44237
    My son and his family live in Everett, WA and he says the air is horrible.
      September 14, 2020 5:52 PM MDT
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  • 339
    I believe it.

    You know it's already reached Chicago.
      September 14, 2020 5:55 PM MDT
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  • 44237
    It's overhead hear in Toledo and stretches into Canada.
      September 14, 2020 5:57 PM MDT
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  • 339
    Serious stuff for everyone.
      September 14, 2020 6:00 PM MDT
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  • 52954
     
      (hear here)
      September 14, 2020 6:58 PM MDT
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  • 44237
    No...it is so thick you can hear it.
      September 14, 2020 8:28 PM MDT
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  • 52954


      Nice try, but no cigar.

    ~
      September 14, 2020 9:22 PM MDT
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  • 44237
      September 15, 2020 8:59 AM MDT
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  • 5808
    Wow that's really bad, those pics
    oops...not your pic the other ones...:)
      September 14, 2020 8:05 PM MDT
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  • 339
    My hair emergencies are tragic, but I'm trying to be brave 
      September 15, 2020 12:07 PM MDT
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  • 52954

     

      I’m in San Diego, California and about twenty-five minutes east of the Pacific Ocean. That means that ever since mid August when the worst of the wildfires began, even though we have smelled a small amount of smoke and the skies get hazy at various times throughout the days or nights, the offshore breezes blow a majority of it all to the east of us (or toward your direction, in other words).

    ~

    This post was edited by Randy D at September 14, 2020 9:20 PM MDT
      September 14, 2020 6:56 PM MDT
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  • 44237
    you...your
      September 14, 2020 8:30 PM MDT
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  • 52954

      Thank you for catching that.
    ~
      September 14, 2020 9:21 PM MDT
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  • 5808
    Yep...unfortunately 
    we've had it since day 1
    Ash all over the cars, not good breathing conditions
    at all. One really scary day heavy smoke no Sun
    all just orange, it was eerie.
    Wear a mask it filters out the smoke smell.

      September 14, 2020 8:02 PM MDT
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  • 19942
    It hasn't reached NYC yet, but listening to the weather report this afternoon, they said we will be getting it because of the way the winds are blowing.  Considering that the smoke has bee non-stop and so widespread, I'm not surprised that we will be affected by it before long.  
      September 14, 2020 8:52 PM MDT
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  • The air quality here in Sacramento has been horrible for weeks. 
      September 14, 2020 9:55 PM MDT
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  • 32700
    I have not seen anything here. 
      September 15, 2020 5:30 AM MDT
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  • 2706
    Michigan here and I haven't really noticed much of anything.
      September 15, 2020 8:51 AM MDT
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  • 17404
    No.  I did read about it this am.
      September 15, 2020 11:00 AM MDT
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  • 19942
    UPDATE:

    Smoke from the wildfires devastating much of the West Coast reached the Big Apple Tuesday — but the haze is so high in the sky, it should not affect air quality. “Widespread haze is likely today in NYC, as a plume of wildfire smoke from Western US wildfires moves overhead,” New York Metro Weather tweeted.
      September 15, 2020 11:25 AM MDT
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  • 10535
    Ya we are getting a lot of smoke from Washington State. I had to take the day off work and I will probably take the rest of the week off because it is getting to my lungs and giving me headacks. It also probally ruined the taste of 15 pot plants I still had outside so I might have to make bud oil out of them. Cheers! This post was edited by Nanoose at September 15, 2020 3:32 PM MDT
      September 15, 2020 3:31 PM MDT
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