Anyone dealing with wildfire smoke from Canada?

I thought about posting this in the Pub, but the anti-Canada / climate change factors probably make it more appropriate here. Smoke maps show that folks are getting this in the deep south, along w just about everywhere else in the continental U.S.

First, what I've heard and read suggests that there's virtually no way Canada + all the external support they are getting could put these fires out. The link above is to a 2023 story, but that summer was particularly bad up here - worst in recorded history. This summer has been similarly bad.


This is a good air quality site. So the AQ scale shows anything below 40 is good. Above 108 is considered unhealthy and at 161 it's labeled very unhealthy. We had one day a little while back where is was 249, just one digit below dangerous. Today it's 160ish and was the same down in the Twin Cities. Driving down the hill toward lake Superior we can see far and wide and the haze today was just gross.

We only get so many sunny 75 clear days and this week it's been just that, but with a big dose of smoke from Canadian wildfires. It appears that the next several days will be the same. Back to the pt about putting them out. It ain't that simple. This year so far the forest burn in Canada is the size of WV or 1/4 the size of MN. There's no hwy system in Canada north of Winnipeg, which is just north of the border. They can't get enough trucks & equipment up there to these remote areas and thoroughly battle. I imagine air support helps, but that they can't put these fires out through air alone. For one, there's too much volume.

Are y'all are dealing with it?