Thousands of visitors were told to evacuate a remote Minnesota wilderness area accessible only by boat as wildfires send dangerously heavy smoke over the U.S. Midwest and Northeast this week.
More than 100 wildfires are burning in Canada and winds are carrying the smoke southeast. Warnings about unhealthy air conditions Wednesday extended from Minnesota through Toronto and into New York. Unusually hot summer temperatures were expected, too.
The best advice is to stay indoors to avoid both the smoke and the extreme heat, said Tyler Hasenstein, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
“Those two things coinciding with each other is not good from a health perspective,” he said.
I live in Toronto and for the past couple days it’s just thick of the smell of like charcoal. On Tuesday it was hot as fuck at like 40C degrees and the only “nice” thing about this smoke was that it cooled things down massively yesterday. but today even at 20C this morning it feels hot and EVERYTHING just smells of smoke, even inside now. I can literally taste Northern Ontario and I used to live there.
To people under the age of 25…this isn’t normal. I NEVER experienced this when I was a kid.