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Watch is up lol. Significant clearing behind the line. Madison is sunny and already at 92

Seriously. I had the same thought. Feels like I’m wearing the air. Pretty dense fog here next to the lake too

Good grief. Hopefully they get it out of their system before Oshkosh

This is my moment

Welp here we go again

Oshkosh AirVenture could be interesting. Not like there’s 10s of thousands of people camping and thousands of planes that aren’t tied down properly. Hopefully they catch a break

Six Flags closed at 3 today. First time in the parks history it closed due to air quality. Black Keys concert in Chicago also cancelled

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The past few years has been crazy with the smoke but this is the worst I’ve ever experienced. AQI in Libertyville was over 700 briefly. That’s absolutely insane. Not sure how to look up historical data on this but is this a relatively new thing within the past 5-10 years? I do not remember anything like this ever happening in the 90s - 2010s. I’m sure climate change is a contributor but what else is at play here? Why are the fires so much more intense than in decades past? Has Canada stopped doing some sort of prevention/mitigation that they used to do in the past? Have rainfall amounts dramatically decreased up there recently? Or am I simply misremembering and this has always been an issue? It feels like this only started happening maybe 5 years ago but it’s been every summer since.

Tor warned here. I’ve actually lost track of how many we’ve had. What a crazy year Edit: Warning was cancelled before it got here. Nice little non rotating wall cloud rolled through though. I’d estimate 50mph gusts. Power is out. Was a fun one

I am absolutely loving this show. Got about 12 mosquito bites taking this though. Little bastards

Some neat cloud formations over the lake this morning. No rotation. Just kinda cool

Always seem to get something on or around the 4th around here. A couple years ago I was at a fireworks show with epic lightning and an approaching storm in the distance and that wasn’t the first time. Wouldn't hate if that happened again. Not looking like that’ll happen on the 4th which I guess is good but seems to happen a lot