East Coast is finally getting a taste of what West Coast summers have been like for the past decade(s).
I wonder if we'd be taking climate change more seriously if it was the other way around; considering there's 10x as many people on the eastern states/provinces.
this has happened to me for like 5 of the last 6 years in western washington. last year i had ash raining down on my house from a nearby wildfire. in 2020 the smoke was so thick that i couldn't see out of my apartment windows. i checked on google maps and according to that, the furthest trees that you can see in this pic are about 650 feet away.
(no idea why the pic is on its side)
it managed to get worse, but i don't have any photos of it.
I no longer forget to put on sunscreen its become so common in the Canadian west. Probably seen the red sun 2-3 dozen times between Cali smoke and the general western provincial fire season.