It smells like firewood out there

[Prairie Gates]

You leave your home or workplace and it smells like you're standing next to a campfire.

The air is thick and smokey.

Worse than last year.

[strongermessage]

1. It smells more like rotten wood burning here in Cleveland.

My eyes actually started to water when I went outside this morning.

[SheltieLover]

2. Get an N95 NIOSH mask & wear it!

[Ocelot II]

3. It smells more like burning tires or plastic to me.

It's nasty.

[31j20b3]

4. Visibility is down to less than 1/2 mile west of Milwaukee

Can't say it smells as good as firewood, it's more a sort of thick, green-wood smoke look and smell around me.
Sort of like the way the highway ditch smells when I burn weeds once a summer

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. It is bad here in Minnesota.

Very hazy and the thick smell of burning wood.

[Chasstev365]

6. I describe it as smelling like those old wood burning engraving tools.

(In the Chicago area)

[Prairie Gates]

7. Yes, I agree

I also agree with everyone above who says it doesn't smell as nice as just a plain old campfire. There's a rot and a bad juju to it, now that y'all mention it.

[Karma13612]

8. I'm in St Lawrence County, NY-21

Near the Canadian border. We are in the country.

Yesterday we woke up to a sky so orange I thought I was tripping.
Air quality was terrible.

This morning, the sky is back to “normal” color, but pale and hazy. The campfire smell is still here, but not as strong. My throat continues to feel scratchy, and I keep feeling the need to cough. I am hoping it blows thru soon. I have lung issues, and it’s a lovely temperature where I normally like to leave all the windows open so we can air out the musty smell of our old house. I’m inside, windows all closed, wearing a mask.

And we have been getting so much heat and humidity that we don’t usually get until August. It is not conducive to being outside, even on nice clean air days.

Thank you global warming deniers. Hope you are happy. And since you all ‘ALSO’ don’t believe in wearing masks….good luck.

[H2O Man]

31. Chenango County here.

I feel like I have smoked a carton of Canadian Wildfires.

[Karma13612]

35. My sympathies!

[mwmisses4289]

9. How close are the Canadian fires to the u.s. northern border for the smoke to be so strong?

[31j20b3]

10. My understanding is there is a huge fire in the US SUperior National Forest

It's my impression from wathing the smoke movement that Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan are getting a lot from that source

[Cadfael]

11. Western suburbs of Chicago here

The AQI is 395 as of 11 am

[doc03]

12. I noticed when I went outside in Ohio I could

smell wood burning. Not as bad as year yet.

[mwmisses4289]

13. Holy Moly!

Found this map on the u.s.a. today website.

https://data.usatoday.com/fires/

The u.s and Canada are on fire, and not in a good way!

[calimary]

19. Just looked at the map.

Absolutely TERRIFYING!

[livetohike]

26. Wow!! I live in SC now and my family and friends in

OH and PA are complaining about the smoke. The pictures they are posting on Facebook are unbelievable.

[Diamond_Dog]

14. In NE OH here near Youngstown

A friend said it smells like burnt Taco Bell. Whatever it is, it’s nasty, it’s making the sky overcast and the air is foggy. It’s much worse than I remember from 2023.

[livetohike]

27. My sister texted me some pics. They aren't leaving

the house. Now would be a good time to use those Covid masks if you absolutely have to go outside.

[Diamond_Dog]

32. It's bad.

According to Air.gov, we are in the Hazardous category.

No one should go out! I took my Sophie dog out and it made my eyes itch.

[Talitha]

15. I'm in rural north WI and it smells just like a campfire.

Maybe the icky smell others detect is from urban areas' pollution being mixed with the smoke?

[Prairie Gates]

17. Maybe

I was so struck by the burning wood smell that it took me a little while to detect the other particulate matter.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

29. Nah. It smells brutal in Northeastern Minnesota.

[legallyblondeNYC]

16. Westchester County, NY

We're just north of the Bronx / NYC.
Yes, it's rather icky.

[niyad]

18. Even though the multiple fires in my state are nowhere near me, I

can frequently smell, and taste, the smoke. I am thankful that I have no serious respiratory issues, just my throat and eyes burning. The Aspen Acres fire alone is over 100,000 acres, over 150 square miles. .an area roughly the size of Denver.

[Figarosmom]

20. Here too. WI near IL border.

[BH liberal]

21. Local weather reports say air is now hazardous...

and not likely to improve any time soon.

[Bumbles]

22. The smell has now permeated my house in midcoast Maine.

[PJMcK]

23. Where Are You?

Yesterday, we were in Oyster Bay, Long Island about an hour east of NYC.

The scent of a fire was moderate and the smoke colored the sky a light reddish-brown.

Quite creepy.

[twodogsbarking]

24. Has Trump fire bombed Canada and we haven't been told? Jus' askin'.

Smokey in central Pa. Like a restaurant in 1972,

[twodogsbarking]

25. Apologies for this not in the music section but I had to do it.

[Mossfern]

30. Essex County NJ

It's starting to look and smell dystopian here.
Air quality this morning was 150, now at 114

I'm one of those sensitive people who have difficulty breathing.
When I was at an appointment today, my voice was raspy, but throat not sore.
I have a meeting tonight - I think I'll opt out.

[Kaleva]

33. In Upper Michigan, ash is drifting down from the sky

[electric_blue68]

34. : (