This was July 7, 2002, which stuck out as the greatest smoke related air quality anomaly in central CT in about 25 years…until the last two days blew it away.
The description of the public reaction
Quiet descended on city streets: The girls who sold peanuts stopped selling their wares, the fruit vendors stood stock still next to heaps of peaches and newsboys subdued their shouts.
It’s interesting experiencing it, but there’s no redeeming quality that I can see other than not suffocating everyone in the immediate downstream by dispersing the smoke.
I do think this is one of Canada’s worst wildfire seasons in recent memory. I mean, I can’t recall the extent of wildfires this early in eastern Canada.
CAG season is probably a 2-3 weeks away in that region. Probably will have a window then. Not a lot of high end stuff tends to come from June CAGs, but the Caribbean is even more of a torch than usual.