@share I'm glad you are safe too, but your friends must be weary having to evacuate their safe space. It's time for a little rain and calmer days.
Recently an unusual wildfire here threatened the small place where I live in the forests of No. NM ... it had consumed 10,000 acres and was only 9 miles away with heavy winds fanning the flames. They had the Hotshot crews coming in from California, and everyone was on the edge waiting for the mandatory evac notice .....
Like a miracle tho, on Sunday night it started to snow, and now the imminent danger is avoided. I felt intuitively that it would be ok, and tried not to give into 'herd panic' as so many of my neighbors here...
It's a terrible thing to go through, and honestly my first thought was for all wildlife so prolific in the forests ?
My heart goes out to everyone on the West Coast and Arizona and Colorado experiencing this.... please stand with me in a strong prayer for blessed rain and snow to put an end to the devastations, and soon !!! ?
I was surprised to hear N. Dakota has been dealing with a grass wildfire due to drought.
I didn't know they really got many wildfires, especially in early April.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/north-dakota-tourist-town-evacuated-because-wildfire-n1262893
I thought the sun looked rather orange and that it was hazier than usual here in Connecticut yesterday. It turns out wildfire smoke from Manitoba and Ontario settled over the NYC Tri-State area and forced the National Weather Service to issue air quality warnings. The sun was also very red this morning, but things are beginning to clear up as a cold front and rain showers move through. Media outlets are also saying the haze is from West Coast fires; as I told my brother in a text, "Everywhere is on fire."
Last year I remember there being one day that way hazy due to Western wildfires, and that was in early October. Things are speeding up.
@coyote, I'm in Northern Virginia and we're being affected by some of the smoke here as well. Such a strange haze. The air quality is bad today. I've also noticed I've been more fatigued with a scratchy throat and burning eyes. I believe the cold front is supposed to come through here tomorrow.
@coyote I noticed it too, in Eastern Massachusetts. Thank you for figuring out why.
We've been hazy for two weeks. Oddly, there's little smoke smell.