Northern quebec forest fires..

[major-mark63]

I live in Mount-Tremblant area few 100 miles away south from the forest fires line and see how smoke we have and outside its really smelling wood fire..

One pic taken yesterday and one this morning..

[Slackernet]

That smoke is pretty bad. We have the same situation / conditions here in the Pocono Mountains,  PA....and yes it is the smoke from those fires in Canada not any local fires. Those fires must be huge

[Dot80]

We have smoke cloud s    in Buffalo  God help them all

[Majbasil]

ok... GET THIS!  I live near Smoky Mountains, Tennessee, my office faces South towards the Smokies and fronts the lake that runs thru Knoxville... The sky is hazy orangy today... NOT NORMAL... All morning, with this sky, I am thinking this is from the Canadian wildfires... Now just imagine if a supervolcano erupts and covers the whole earth with smoke, no wonder the dinosaurs went extinct...  https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/04/us/dinosaurs-died-after-a-fire-swept-earth-scientists-say.html  and may the Yellowstone Supervolcano stay asleep for as long as possible... (which is historically overdue for a big eruption.) 

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How would Yellowstone eruption affect the world?

 

Ecosystem destruction - Whole ecosystems would be destroyed. Crops would be destroyed due to ash fall and animals would die due to respiratory problems and starvation. Long term survival – If a global ice age was triggered due to the supervolcanic eruption, plants and animals would die quickly.

 

 

How much damage would the Yellowstone supervolcano do?

 

The model shows that the fallout from a Yellowstone super-eruption could affect three quarters of the US. The greatest danger would be within 1,000 km of the blast where 90 per cent of people could be killed. Large numbers of people would die across the country – inhaled ash forms a cement-like mixture in human lungs.

 

What supervolcano could wipe out us?

 

 

 

Yellowstone erupts roughly every 600,000 years, and it's about 600,000 years since it last exploded. An eruption at Yellowstone National Park could lead to the end of human civilisation.Oct 6, 2018

 

[BlackRose]

yes plus all fires in BC

[MikeB]

Effecting us here in Ohio too.  Been very hazy the past 2 days.  

[StormCrow]

5 hours ago, major-mark63 said:

I live in Mount-Tremblant area few 100 miles away south from the forest fires line and see how smoke we have and outside its really smelling wood fire..

One pic taken yesterday and one this morning..

I live in Cambridge Ontario in southwestern Ontario, we can smell it all day here and there is a haze in the air, the schools are not letting the kids out for recess and alot of air quality warnings

[TBB]

In NJ looks like fog all day - bright orange Sun when you can see it

[major-mark63]

yes these fires are the worst seen in 50 yrs, it has already burned more than the last record for a whole years in acres burned.

Many small towns are been mandatory evacuated to other town more south...

They say some fire could burn all summer long...

Need some rain desperatly!!!!!

 

[TheLastColdBeer]

Rain is the only thing that will help.

[Smeggie]

Dense smoke here in the Washington DC area as well. 

[MikeB]

Very dry here too in Ohio.  Have not had any significant rain in weeks.  We have had air quality warnings the past few days as well.  

[evo]

i here ya we just finished fighting the fires here in Alberta /bc mountains be safe

[Timmah!]

Does this province extinguish wildfires as soon as they occur, as a policy?

I've read that's what California does, & it causes a build-up of dry plant materials over several years that would otherwise be burnt seasonally, at more modest levels; eventually a critical fuel mass is reached which can't be managed or contained, resulting in monstrous conflagrations.

[Izumi]

12 hours ago, SGTSmeg said:

Dense smoke here in the Washington DC area as well. 

Get outta that swamp!

[Smeggie]

2 hours ago, Izumi said:

Get outta that swamp!

I WISH!  It's not just the smoke that stinks in this town!

[major-mark63]

5 hours ago, Timmah! said:

Does this province extinguish wildfires as soon as they occur, as a policy?

I've read that's what California does, & it causes a build-up of dry plant materials over several years that would otherwise be burnt seasonally, at more modest levels; eventually a critical fuel mass is reached which can't be managed or contained, resulting in monstrous conflagrations.

Ive heard that some fire they let it burn , but when its getting close to towns or power line etc they try to extinguish or like now they are building big trenches around towns and or some industries (lot of logging and mine and ore plants)

[major-mark63]

We have over 1000 mens fighting fires and over 13 planes to fight fires  , problems with planes and pilots is the amount of hours they need to stop to maIntenance and time to rest the crews after 50 hours of flying...

[major-mark63]

Just now, major-mark63 said:

We have over 1000 mens fighting fires and over 13 planes to fight fires  , problems with planes and pilots is the amount of hours they need to stop to maIntenance and time to rest the crews after 50 hours of flying...

Help is coming from others provinces and even from France

[AthenA]

It's the same in Québec city... haven't seen the sun since at least Monday as it's so smoky or just grey. We had a couple of rainy days here and I don't mind the rain, but wished that it was their way to help with all the fires up North of here. One of my friend living in this area has been evacuated and she doesn't know when her family and her will be able to go back home... if everything goes well. It's sad  I'm praying for the best soon !

[evo]

14 hours ago, Timmah! said:

Does this province extinguish wildfires as soon as they occur, as a policy?

I've read that's what California does, & it causes a build-up of dry plant materials over several years that would otherwise be burnt seasonally, at more modest levels; eventually a critical fuel mass is reached which can't be managed or contained, resulting in monstrous conflagrations.

here they try to but every year in may it gets real dry here in Alberta and bc mountains and hard to control here plus the campers here 25% of them don't care and they start the fires weather it a cig but camp fire too there atv's stuff like that we have an normal of 100 to 200 fires every may and now it has started on our east coast in nova scotia Canada but one day it will get better and the people here will be more careful on what they do i hope

[MikeB]

I read somewhere the US has sent over 600 firefighters up to Canada and more are on the way.  Crazy.  At least here the air is starting to clear a little.  We are finally getting rain over the weekend. 

[major-mark63]

UPDATE: this morning after some fires out there still out of control , very smelly burny , sky suppose to be clear at 820am.

[major-mark63]

The forecast for next week is rain for 6 days in a row , smoke here will get down but i hope up north they gonna have enough rain to slow down these wild fires..((.temp in celcius and 25mm equal one inch of rain.))

[TheLastColdBeer]

Wildfire smoke is here now. Visibility down to a mile, blue haze everywhere outside. Illinois really needs rain, but none in the forecast.