Smoke not from barbecues.

[urbpan]

We just took the dogs on a walk, and there's a weird haze throughout an otherwise sunny day. At Ward's Pond, it looked almost like a fog was settling on the kettle. It turns out that it's smoke from a Canadian forest fire. Or rather, fromt eh more than 50 fires burning in Quebec.

It makes me think about the connectedness of places we think of as far away. It makes me worry about the Gulf.

Edited to add: The article above reports 5 mile visibility in Boston, it's gotten to be much worse than that. Can't see the Citgo sign through the haze, which is only 3 miles away or less. Saw a lady in the store with a surgical mask on.

Edited further to add: Here's what it looks like from right by my house. @universalhub twitter feed is calling it #SmokeMonsieur. Another friend is calling it #BurnQuebecBurn.

Comments

[brush-rat.livejournal.com]

And Now you have a taste of what it's like to live downwind of the annual California wildfires.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

We had that early this morning -- in NH.

[tiranna.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought I'd gotten something in my eyes when I left the house this morning. Until I realized it smelled like smoke, too :P

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

We have it too on the Cape, although it's cleared up quite a bit. Canada? Wow. I was convinced it'd be much closer, like in the next neighborhood.

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

I wondered what was going on as I drove to Boston via route 2. It looks like terrible heat haze, but it's only about 72. WEIRD.

[greenminions.livejournal.com]

We were in Montreal over the long weekend and early Monday morning the city was covered in a haze (though it looked worse in your photo of Boston) and smelled like smoke. By afternoon it had mostly gone away though.

[agelena.livejournal.com]

Several years ago, smoke from fires burning in the Yucatan caused our track & field day to be canceled near Dallas Tx.