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24 minutes ago, weatherbo said:

Found this.... prob explains it.

Here's why you smell plastic from a forest fire:

"Wood fires emit a ton of volitile organic compounds (voc)

Most of these VOCs are noticeable to our noses as the familiar "campfire" smell, but they breakdown quickly when exposed to UV radiation from sunlight.  Other VOCs like benzene, formaldehyde and acrolein are released and they outlast the "campfire" VOCs.

It's these chemical compounds that you're smelling as the smoke wafts around for a few days then settles to the ground and reaches your nose.

Thus the plastic chemical smell."

Well dang it, I want the campfire smell if I gotta deal with this.

22 minutes ago, SolidIcewx said:

Really bad air coming into lower Michigan from the UP curious to see if the hazardous air gets to Detroit metro

I wonder why this smells like burnt plastic or electrical and not wood.  Is the government burning pits of tires in the woods?

2023 will be known as the year of the smoke.

21 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

WIZ005-010>013-018>022-030-031-035>040-045-048>050-073-074-291700-
Vilas-Oneida-Forest-Florence-Northern Marinette County-Lincoln-
Langlade-Menominee-Northern Oconto County-Door-Marathon-Shawano-
Wood-Portage-Waupaca-Outagamie-Brown-Kewaunee-Waushara-Winnebago-
Calumet-Manitowoc-Southern Marinette County-
Southern Oconto County-
Including the cities of Eagle River, Lac Du Flambeau,
Rhinelander, Crandon, Aurora, Commonwealth, Spread Eagle,
Niagara, Wausaukee, Merrill, Tomahawk, Antigo, Keshena, Neopit,
Mountain, Lakewood, Townsend, Sturgeon Bay, Fish Creek,
Sister Bay, Wausau, Shawano, Marshfield, Wisconsin Rapids,
Stevens Point, Plover, New London, Waupaca, Clintonville,
Appleton, Green Bay, Kewaunee, Luxemburg, Redgranite, Wautoma,
Oshkosh, Neenah, Menasha, Chilton, Brillion, New Holstein,
Manitowoc, Two Rivers, Harmony, Peshtigo, Porterfield, Crivitz,
High Falls Reservoir, Loomis, Middle Inlet, Little Suamico,
Sobieski, Brookside, Oconto, and Pensaukee
659 AM CDT Mon Jun 26 2023

...AIR QUALITY ADVISORY ISSUED FOR ALL OF WISCONSIN...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has issued an Air
Quality Advisory for PM2.5 which will remain in effect until noon
Thursday, June 29th. This advisory affects the full state of
Wisconsin.

Smoke originating from Canadian wildfires will spread from
north-to-south today (Monday, June 26th), impacting PM2.5
concentrations at the surface. We expect this situation to remain
highly dynamic over the coming days and will adjust messaging as
needed.

For today (Monday, June 26th), we expect the heaviest smoke
impacts across the eastern half of the state, where the Air
Quality Index (AQI) is expected to be within the UNHEALTHY
category but could reach the VERY UNHEALTHY category. People with
heart or lung disease, older adults, and children should avoid
prolonged or heavy exertion and consider avoiding all physical
outdoor activities; everyone else should reduce prolonged or heavy
exertion and consider avoiding prolonged or heavy exertion.

At this time, we anticipate the eastern half of the state to see
the heaviest surface smoke through this episode, with noon
Tuesday through noon Wednesday currently appearing to be the
period of heaviest impact. The AQI will likely range from the
UNHEALTHY to VERY UNHEALTHY categories, but we cannot rule out the
possibility of the AQI reaching the HAZARDOUS category.

For more information on current air quality, please see:
https://airquality.wi.gov

Summer has become the season of smoke, not storms.

For a while it looked like I might get goose-egged.  At the last minute, the gap in the line of storms moving across eastern Iowa filled in and soaked the Cedar Rapids area.  There were a couple scattered warnings in the area, but I only received beautiful, straight-down rain. Most personal gauges across the metro area are reporting over an inch.  I got 0.96".  
It is no coincidence our dewpoint shot up to 70º late this evening.  It feels and smells good to finally have humid, wet air in June.

Your palms and grass do not seem to mind it.

Blessed

 

Paradise.

2 hours ago, nvck said:

I think Cincinnati has only had one 90 so far this year? maybe two? but today it is amazing out, 68 and cloudy like a mid October day

Weird Rex block.

14 minutes ago, SchaumburgStormer said:

Where were we at in 2012 at this point?

8 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

lol

same as it ever was

Now do euro

10 hours ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Atrazine... nasty stuff, be careful with it. Potent endocrine disruptor, which has been observed to turn male frogs into females.

Source: https://news.berkeley.edu/2010/03/01/frogs/

So Alex Jones was right about the frogs?

If we don't get any precip here and push into July, I think we could see something like 1936, but add 100 years of warming.  MKE could make a run at 110.

Temps approaching mid 90s in Moosonee, Ontario.

3 minutes ago, SolidIcewx said:

Reminds me. I have a neighbor that has been spray painting their brown spots 

There's a spray paint that works wonders -- and it's very cheap.  WATER.

9 hours ago, OrdIowPitMsp said:

Over the weekend I was in Utah visiting family and got the chance to ski on the final day of the season at Snowbird. Pretty awesome conditions for mid June. 

damn that's dirty snow

7 hours ago, frostfern said:

I’ll pull my hair out if its one of those I-80/I-90 only MCS tracks and Michigan is still in the turd zone.  Either spread the wealth or don’t bother.

I'll laugh if we get I-80 cruisers south of me.

9 hours ago, IMADreamer said:

I in my wildest dreams can't imagine a day where I give a crap if my grass is green.  

Green grass is like having green gold.

9 hours ago, TheClimateChanger said:

Looks like there may be a pretty solid plume of smoke, including concentrated surface smoke, on Thursday extending from northern Michigan into the Chicagoland area and southern Wisconsin. Potential exists for degraded air quality.

Never thought I'd have a summer here with more smoke than storms.

10 hours ago, Stebo said:

We had plenty of water bans here before and we have Lakes Huron, St. Clair, and Erie locally so yeah it can happen.

I'll water at 3 am

19 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

it's been like paradise, just unreal wx, especially for the normies who don't mind the lack of storms

makes it obv why lakefront living was so valued in the pre-ac historical era

 

now do april

17 minutes ago, A-L-E-K said:

lol

MKE hasn't had a thunderstorm since April 25.

Come August once the watering bans commence.

Pristine green.