nifty!

[rootofnewt]

twilight_spirit wrote of this, so i had to go dig it up myself. bizarre.

we'd noticed the extreme haziness... like super-smog, without the 100+ degree temps and ultra-high humidity and breathing strain of a normal ozone alert day. from the ben franklin bridge, center city was nearly indistinguishable. and i noticed the odor of burning wood, but didn't link the two.

(pardon the caps, blame the national weather service if you must)
...SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 950 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 2002
...THE SMOKE SHOULD FINALLY CLEAR BY LATE MONDAY MORNING...

SMOKE FROM FOREST FIRES UP IN QUEBEC CONTINUES TO AFFECT EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...NEW JERSEY...DELAWARE AND NORTHEASTERN MARYLAND. THE SMOKE HAS BEEN OBSCURING THE SKY AND REDUCING THE VISIBILITY THROUGHOUT THE REGION SINCE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. ALSO...THERE HAS BEEN A PERSISTENT ODOR OF BURNING WOOD.

THE LAST SIGNIFICANT SMOKE PLUME TO AFFECT OUR REGION PASSED OVERHEAD THIS AFTERNOON. A NORTHWEST TO WEST WIND THIS EVENING BROUGHT LIMITED IMPROVEMENT.

DURING THE NIGHT THE WIND SHOULD REMAIN RELATIVELY LIGHT AND AS A RESULT SOME SMOKE SHOULD LINGER. A WEST TO SOUTHWEST WIND IS FORECAST TO DEVELOP ON MONDAY MORNING AND IT WILL LIKELY PUSH THE LAST OF THE SMOKE AND HAZE OUT OF OUR REGION BY MIDDAY.

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[firinel.livejournal.com]

weird, wonder where the hell I've been?

I went into the city today (had to go to the aeroport to take marnanel back to England) and I noticed an odd smell, and a bad haze - and I complained that my allergies seemed to be bothering me more badly today then should be usual when the pollen counts are looked at, but I hadn't actually noticed something obviously wrong.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

it's pretty sad that we brush off the haze so easily. :/

i mean, i DID feel it was odd to see so much smog-like haze on a breezy, relatively cool, not terribly humid day. and, while i was hard to breathe without pain, i wasn't gasping the way i do on code red ozone alert days, but the haze was *thicker* than a code red day.

and the sun--it was so small and fiery-orange-red.

it just *looked* like a smoggy day, so i didn't even connect the burning wood smell to the hazy sky.

[drcuriosity]

I find it odd that our local newsfeeds haven't considered fires of that magnitude a story. And not a little worrying.

well...

[krasota.livejournal.com]

well, it *is* in canada. who the heck pays attention to canada?

oh.

yeah.

folks in new zealand.

here in the US, we're obsessed with corporate fraud, political fraud, and diminishing civil rights. we don't pay attention to no stinkin' fires in quebec. heck, the whole western half of our country is aflame and that only takes up the second or third page of the "nation" section of the paper. ;)