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Earlier in the week my forecast high for today was 100F. It's been scaled back to 96F. Wonder if the haze from the wild fires is a factor? 84F/DP 72F

Has the Canada smoke always been “a thing” around these parts? It’s like I never even heard of the phenomenon until a few years ago?

Yea, it's clearly BOSS in the tropics...just need to get that into the mid latitudes, which it ultimately will with any luck.

Smoke is nasty here too. Had to get up very early, and shut the windows. What a rude awakening. Temps in the 70's today tho.

We have broken the 1997 record for Peru’s (next to region 1+2) highest air temperate record It doesn’t get more El Niño than this, clearly defined El Niño convective standing wave/forcing: This is likely to be a record-breaking EPAC TC season

Its July 15th

So dark I may have to put a light on. Its super spooky out...makes me want to go out, carve a pumpkin and sit it on my desk

86 / 70 heating up quick smoke still mainly north of NJ

I do recall something

wasn’t there a high risk in the Plains some years back that busted badly and was attributed to wildfire smoke?

I would have to imagine we see significant improvement on tomorrow's drought update across NC and SC with the potential of both D4 areas to be removed

That is a nasty smoke plume shifting slowly south from New England. Visibilities not being affected significantly until you get into the Great Lakes area. Some reports there of 1-2 miles. At a minimum the skies will turn "dirty" looking again later today. Click to enlarge maps.

Quickly yo 86 here.

Yeah it looks like no relief. Continued and muggy.

This could be the best case scenario from a helping reduce the SE drought perspective. A not too strong TC that provides beneficial rains (hopefully not flooding obviously).

yeah and those values are absolutely nuts. Off the scale that pivotal has lol

Hey @Stormchaserchuck1, what is the calculation of your NAO index right now?

Feels like we just woke up in a bowl of urine this morn. When I woke at dawn and saw pure darkness I knew this was going to be bad.

I woke up to wet ground, so creeped into N fringe of MA.

06z HRRR has tomorrow’s near surface smoke density worse than today. That’s great. Just great.

Lies!!!

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If I remember correctly too, some of the research on wildfires and influences on severe weather events is also based on the source of the wildfires (i.e. what is burning). Different burn sources are going to release different particulates into the air. And I think there is a big difference between what is burnt/released from Canadian fires versus what is burned and released within the western U.S.