There have been wildfires in the Boundary Waters in Northern Minnesota over the last few days. The wind finally carried all the smoke our way. It is truly a terrible sight to see. As we were driving to the Minnesota Zoo last night, we actually saw the wall cloud of smoke moving into the Twin Cities. By the time our Wanderlight Trail experience was done at the Zoo, we were definitely breathing in smoke and you can taste it too. It's not fun. I woke up with a terrible headache - it didn't occur to me to turn off our window AC unit, so that was pumping in the hazardous air all night (and part of this morning until I realized what was happening and I turned it off). I will probably edit this post later to add my screen shots of the temp and AQI - it's currently well over 300!
This is driving home from the grocery store this morning.
Here's what I woke up to when I opened the curtains. It's not humidity haze... it's smoke!
And the bright red sun. Quite a few years ago I was reading an article and some science-y journals about what makes the sunsets and sunrises so pretty - and the consensus came to pollutants in the air. My mind was blown. And here's picture proof - the sun is a gorgeous red coming up in that smoke and it makes me so sad.
We have one more day of temps in the 90s - I think 96 is our high tomorrow and then the heat dome finally collapses and we're back down in the 80s for usual July temps here in St Louis Park. It's too rough to even do the pool today, I'm hoping it gets windy overnight enough to move the smoke or if it rains, it will bring the particles down to the ground and move it out of the atmosphere.
Stay healthy, friends!
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