All-time record high temperatures here today in San Diego, and now fire

[Eadwine Rose]

"Hopefully not in the Netherlands" someone on Twitter in a reply to that.



I don't think it will be as bad as the smoke in the USA.

[AVLinux]

I live in Southwestern Ontario Canada (actually south of many of the northern United States). We are experiencing 'weird' haze here as well, no doubt the smoke is well into the prevailing westerly gulfstream winds now into the US midwest rust belt and Southern Canada. I would have to guess this phenomenon of smoke being present and affecting atmospheric conditions in places so far from 'ground zero' to this much of a degree must be somewhat unprecedented.

Hang in there folks and keep vigilant, get out when the getting is good! You are in the thoughts, prayers and concerns of people all over the world..

[richb]

Southern shore of Lake Ontario in Western NY. Hazy sunshine the last couple of days. Experts say it is too high in the atmosphere to affect compromised people like asthmatics. It gives one an appreciation for the magnitude of the disaster.

[KBD]

Our weather here in the U.S. Midwest has been hazy all week due to the fires.

[handy]

It seems that unfortunately extreme fires in summer are now the new normal. Though it takes some seasons for them to recover enough to provide fuel for the next fire to come through...

Incredibly hard/tragic for the biosphere.

[Stevo]

There are records in the Eastern US of weird hazy overcasts and "dark days" going back to the earliest occupation by Europeans. Most must have been from huge fires to the west or in Canada, but of course, there's no historical records of the actual fires.

It's well accepted that the weird worldwide overcast of 1815-16 and the "year without a summer" were the result of the ash and SO2 injected into the stratosphere by the huge Tambora eruption in Indonesia. Krakatoa had a similar cloud, just not as thick, and I remember the great sunsets that the El Chichon and Pinatubo eruptions gave us in the 80's and 80's.