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Blessed to have traded AQI for Dews. I’ll take an AQI of 56 with a 70 DP over what we endured yesterday.

Smoke has on a relative sense moved out of my area. AQI below 200 and visibly has improved to 8-9mi after being 1-3mi most of the day. Historic smoke event without a doubt.

Not being forced. I have stop work authority and plan on exercising it today.

530 was the peak AQI in Minneapolis overnight. Eyes and throat burn working outside in this crap. Good times

AQI is 483 right now in Minneapolis.

Smoke hit like a freight train a few minutes ago. I don’t miss that pungent odor one bit

Multiple monitors from Duluth to Marquette in the 600-800+ range. Can’t remember ever seeing anything above 600. So far no smoke here, but the highest dewpoints of this heatwave so far.

94 today. Surprised how acclimated I’ve become, but I guess the same thing happens in winter.

They are adding smoke to the forecast here as well. Said it might impact highs. We’ve had 4 consecutive 90+ highs and the record is 9.

93 for the afternoon high. Crazy having warmer temps to my north. International Falls got to 97.

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness being closed to all visitors for only the 2nd time ever due to extreme fire behavior and danger. Love that area so much, hope they get some storms soon.

High of 90 today. Dews have crept up into the low 70s this evening.

90 yesterday. 4th of the year for MSP. Spent the day floating the Cannon River.

Another day of low 80s. Dewpoint fell into the 53-55 range today which has really made for a perfect summer evening.

That 1936 heatwave is a remarkable outlier. Will be interesting to see if it can be repeated again in the future, or spoiled by higher dews from modern agriculture.