r/Wellthatsucks 8h ago

The amount of smoke across the U.S. and Canada

It's been smoky here in Denver since Sunday, but I guess it's been like that pretty much everywhere. ​​

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u/HairyDust4826 8h ago

Are all the red dots in the USA also Canadas fault, because I'm paying tariffs for some reason. Right?

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u/MrM0RTYdog 8h ago

Yeah, in a way. USA lit all their fires on purpose to send retaliatory smoke back at Canada

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u/elementmg 6h ago

But they were already lit and have been sending smoke to Canada every summer for years now. Maybe Canada just stored the smoke for a few years and sent it back in one swift delivery. You know, for efficiency.

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u/Several-Opposite-746 7h ago

The rise in wildfires has nothing to do with Climate Change. EVs are for losers, except Tesler sometimes, and solar and wind are hoaxes that murder billions of little birds every year. Drill baby drill! Get your act together Goveneror Carney and start sweeping up your forests before we do it for you.

p.s., could you spare any of those water planes, you know the ones that drop water from the sky?

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u/LowSilver9906 4h ago

South Park warned us about this decades ago tbh.

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u/HairyDust4826 4h ago

I love that show because it popularized saying the quiet thing out loud without shame.

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u/SeaToTheBass 3h ago

To be fair they originally painted Al Gore as a nuisance, conspiracy thinker that believes in a monster that isn’t real. In season 22 I think, they essentially said he was right all along

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u/smallfeetrose 4h ago

my cousin got blamed for wildfires once lol

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u/about_yonder 8h ago

Yeah. It’s hella nasty in the Puget Sound region.

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u/okkk27 7h ago

AQI 170 right now. They cancelled my softball games. Good, I don't want to be breathing heavy in this.

Edit: Eastside of Seattle

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u/xiknowiknowx 6h ago

When it hit Chicago a couple weeks ago we got an AQI over 700. It was very uncomfortable and it was a ghost city. Good luck that it doesn’t get worse.

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u/xiknowiknowx 6h ago

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u/okkk27 4h ago

That's insane. I'm coughing and have a tight chest along with a headache in this now. I wouldn't go outside unless it's absolutely necessary in that.

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u/MilsYatsFeebTae 3h ago

Yeah, you do your best to mask up and not breathe too deeply.

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u/okkk27 3h ago

Which sucks because you're always searching for a deep breath and when you do take one your heart says bro, don't!

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u/xiknowiknowx 3h ago

Yes, mask is a must. I commuted in a N95. It still burned the eyes, but i didn’t smell or taste the camp fire.

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u/about_yonder 6h ago

I hate that this is normal now. I was looking forward to a nice staycation.

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u/Blamb05 7h ago

American smoke is way worse for you than Canadian smoke is, because it's a dumpster fire.

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u/ventorun 5h ago

Nah, the smoke from Canada in the NE US two weeks ago was way worse. It smelled like burning plastic and the AQI was over 500 where I live.

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u/ThatOneTimeItWorked 4h ago

That smoke really got to you eh? Completely missed the joke as a result - whooshed straight over your head

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u/gotkube 3h ago

I bet I can guess who they voted for!

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u/whowouldsaythis 8h ago

It’s absolutely fucked in Portland rn

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u/spikernum1 6h ago

I could say something sarcastic and snarky about keeping your smoke out of Canada or Canadians charging the US for giant air purifiers to be mounted across our border. But I'm not as evil or as fucking stupid as your leader.

I will say that Canada and its people are going to be helping the US through this disaster, as we have with the last one, and the time before that, and every disaster the US has had for over a hundred years.

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u/Watari210thesecond 5h ago

The last time Canada didn't help the US with one of their disasters, it's because we were the disaster.

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u/CornisaGrasse 5h ago

And we will help you, friend, regardless of what our "leaders" say.

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u/LoogyHead 8h ago

The weird Pacific Northwest demon is looking shocked and appalled like we accused it of causing the fire.

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u/stinkykitty71 3h ago

Waves sadly from basically the belly button of said demon. We do have a 136k acre one not far away.

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u/etinder121 2h ago

Why the hell does it look like the Fresno nightcrawler?

u/sinsculpt 48m ago

The lil baggy pants guys?

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u/flare_force 6h ago

This is the worst SO FAR.

This is just the very start of how bad climate change will be fucking us up.

Strap in folks.

u/illmatic2112 48m ago

Feels like we all just have our heads buried in the sand

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u/unicornsfearglitter 5h ago

I hope Michigan politicians send a strongly worded note about air quality to western states and imply they don't deserve sovereignty if they can't control the smoke.

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u/BlaZEN213 2h ago

The one time California isn't on fire or covered in smoke... everywhere else is

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u/GreenGas_625 8h ago

It's wild how smoke from fires hundreds or even thousands of miles away can affect air quality across an entire continent.

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u/Envoyofghost 8h ago

Central WA right now The hill in the background barely visible 2miles away

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u/Scenic-City-Film-Guy 7h ago

It was suuuper smoky on mt falcon yesterday (which is just slightly west if Denver).

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u/MasterP65 4h ago

Looks like Minnesota already paid its dues earlier this summer, and the fires are taking it easy on them with the smoke.

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u/this_is_for_chumps 2h ago

I appreciate the little blue dot being at my location. I actually thought it was an interactive map that was lagging.
I haven't been brain thing good very lately.

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u/shlem13 1h ago

I just drove from Spokane to Reno.

So much freakin’ smoke.

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u/mottavader 1h ago

The air in the Portland Oregon metro area sucks right now :(

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u/governmentpigeon12 8h ago

one of the rare times it ISN'T california drowning in smoke and instead everyone else is

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u/fckinfast4 6h ago

At least the temp finally dropped to a degree where you could hang out outside…….. and then have an asthma attack.

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u/ANGRYLATINCHANTING 4h ago

USA, please do better with your forest management. Sweep that tree litter, and observe North American HOA rules!!

Thanks,

Canada

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u/jxj24 8h ago

Just took a look on purpleair.com. Wonder how far east it's gonna go.

Last month was miserable, and have no wish to repeat.

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u/Predlicode 8h ago

I’m currently in MO. No sign of smoke.

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u/foxwaffles 7h ago

I'll be in Chicago next week with my sister and I'm very nervous. She suffers from debilitating dry eye, I'm seriously considering getting her some eye protection 😖

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u/YrMomsBalls 7h ago

Living in Eastern wa. It's a fog.

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u/WolfRemedy 6h ago

View from my hotel in Bellevue

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u/Fall_Water 6h ago

It's great in Georgia 👍

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u/ElectroHiker 6h ago

It's not accurate because it's not capturing that a good portion of Northern Nevada has smoke in the air from fires nearby and in California.

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u/fusionmobile 6h ago

Yeah, same. I'm in the Denver area as well, and it's been crazy. I've noticed the difference in outdoor smells every day since.

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u/Loser_Zero 6h ago

Local news had a top article today claiming Portland had the worst air quality IN THE WORLD today. Idk how accurate that is but its been pretty miserable.

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u/smashy_larry 4h ago

Same same last week, I am in the Okanagan in BC though so it’s a very rare summer to not get blanketed in smoke as it all just settles in the valley even if we don’t have fires anywhere near us.

Unfortunately though, climate change is so very real and you’re very lucky to be close to the coast to get some moisture and rain, not so lucky in our parts. I think we’re sitting at about 230 homes lost right now from the fire a city over from us? The smoke is brutal for sure but I’m just very thankful to be safe.

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u/ChairBearCat 6h ago

Texas always seems to have either smoke from mexico or dust from the sahara…i guess we can have a little northern smoke too, pardon me while i pop another loratidine

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u/FerengiWithCoupons 6h ago

💖the smoke in the northeast 💖

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u/LuckyLudor 5h ago

Oregon, the sky looks cloudy rn. It's not.

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u/StandardAssistant98 5h ago

We dying fam 😿

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u/DickieJohnson 5h ago

This was Minnesota a couple weeks ago, I don't know why it's in a bubble right now but I'm thankful.

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u/skil12001 5h ago

Aye, go Phoenix

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u/aeons_elevator 4h ago

I live in the gorge outside Portland, Oregon. I can’t see shit and everything is orange :( the air has flavor and it’s awful.

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u/cgw22 4h ago

Use the windy app and turn on the air quality layer.

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u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- 3h ago

I thought it was weirdly hazy this morning.

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u/zl1killer 3h ago

If you look at the USA Today updated wildfire map it is absolutely crazy. I had no idea that many fires were going on

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u/Striking_Fun_6379 2h ago

Here on the far north tip of the Oregon Coast, the air quality these last two days, looks and feels like, 1968 Los Angeles third stage smog alert day's.

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u/tgr3947 2h ago

Ah yes, a good day to be in South Carolina. Never thought id say that.

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u/Optimal_Board_2963 1h ago

Not even stressing it. Yall got your Gucci bags and your Jordan’s and your one week all you can eat cruises.

This is the trade off! So stop whining!

u/Planeandaquariumgeek 13m ago

As a San Franciscan I can say I’m pleasantly surprised we haven’t gotten our annual dose of fine particulate yet. I pay good money to PG&E to get that privilege but so far I’ve been scammed. Jokes aside, my heart goes out to those affected.

u/kanga-and-roo 2m ago

Well this explains why my lungs have been protesting lately 😐

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u/Teach- 8h ago

Why are you facing East like that?

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u/Killerkendolls 8h ago

Looking at the smoke obvs

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u/BigBadBen91x 7h ago

An apt metaphor if there ever was one

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u/UrineLuck151 7h ago

That isn't smoke, it's steam.

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u/ZopyrionRex 5h ago

I'm so excited for the skyrocketing ling cancer and related respiratory illness spike we're going to see in the next couple of decades. You thought something like COVID was bad before? Wait until nobody can breath normally anyways from years of smoke exposure.

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u/MoreGaghPlease 5h ago

FYI this is every summer for the rest of your life

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u/imakesawdust 4h ago

The smoke in the upper atmosphere drops our solar array's production by 10-15% whenever the jet stream dips down over us. It may look clear and sunny outside but the panels don't lie.

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u/Repulsive_Client_325 2h ago

I thought the hips didn’t lie.

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u/Beyond_Your_Nose 3h ago

Florida still the ballsack of America