Wildfires - Smoke (night, sun, predict, cloud)

[lubby]

I live in NY on Long Island the skies are yellow very hazy out and the smell of smoke is unbearable. If you have breathing issues stay inside!

[Cambium]

Absolutely WILD day. Its looking like Mars and smells like a campground actually not a bad smell but its everywhere and thick


NYC now vs Normal



https://twitter.com/Stretchct/status...06711333576705




Airports shut down



https://twitter.com/SCwxFrankStrait/...93477952053261


NUTS!



https://twitter.com/mark_tarello/sta...92228175376384

Mars or Manhattan?



https://twitter.com/JasminMarilena/s...07744851927058


I went to the beach and couldn't see Long Island. It's not cloudy, its the smoke. NUTS. Everything is orange too.








Temps are DROPPING.



https://twitter.com/burgwx/status/1666489108687097856


I outlined in red the thickest of the plume, Im in it but a little south of me getting it even worse

[exm]

LI looks like a nuclear bomb was detonated not too far away.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by exm

LI looks like a nuclear bomb was detonated not too far away.

And just imagine....This is what it must have been like, but a thousand times worse, and on a global scale, 65 million years ago when the Earth was hit with that asteroid in the extreme southern Gulf of Mexico

[Cambium]

For those looking to know when the smoke will stop or get worse or where its moving click this link


This link is using the HRRR model. https://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/H...Jun+2023+-+15Z

The HRRR Smoke has done a decent job on the timing and magnitude of the plume, but it is mostly whiffing outside of the largest impacts.


I used the 6000' maps, you can use 1000' or the near surface or the vertically integrated smoke options. Domain I used Northeast U.S



1pm today we started entering the thick of it. By early morning its moving away but note another one coming??







Loop

[tasmtairy]

I'm in NC straight north of Charlotte. It's hazy, don't smell anything yet.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by tasmtairy

I'm in NC straight north of Charlotte. It's hazy, don't smell anything yet.

Today was the first day I've smelled anything. Mrs. NBP, however, started to smell it yesterday afternoon.

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by Cambium

How dry is it that forests catch on fire in Canada? I've had a tree get hit by lightning in a severe drought here and my neighborhood didn't go up in flames. But to see this from West to East sure raises the eyebrows

https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/s...21017645752322

Is it unusual to have this much of Canada burning so early in the year?

Very much yes


https://twitter.com/JimTeskeNC9/stat...72509869969408

I think fires near Hudson Bay in Ontario caused something similar in June 2002.

[North Beach Person]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

I think fires near Hudson Bay in Ontario caused something similar in June 2002.

Yep. But it's "unprecedented" even though it happens every few decades.

https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/mis...smoke%20plumes.

I'm reading a history of the Comanches right now (Comanche Empire) and the author stresses that one of the factors that helped caused the collapse of Comancheria was a twenty plus year drought from the 1840's through the 1850's that caused the buffalo herds to not reproduce as fast, meaning fewer animals to hunt, and caused native nations on the borders of Comanche territory to compete with them for the remaining animals. There were, of course, other reasons involved, primarily settlement from the East.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

I think fires near Hudson Bay in Ontario caused something similar in June 2002.

I think I read 1966 comes close to this event and was a combination of smog and inversion

Originally Posted by North Beach Person

Yep. But it's "unprecedented" even though it happens every few decades.

https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/mis...smoke%20plumes.

thanks for this! Although I don't believe was as thick or as close to surface as this one.

"Much of this smoke was advected southward across the northeastern US during July 6-8 as a cyclone intensified over the Canadian Maritimes"

Look at the map comparison that event vs today. The Center of the Low is in the same spot! Flow is not in our favor.