What I am looking @ right now in Central Ohio. Clouds and smoke from Canada's wildfires.

[Botany]

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https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

It is not as thick as other times but the smoke is here.

Sorry to babble but those areas that are burning in Canada should not be burning at all unless there are
dead trees above the ground layer of the forests. The areas that are burning or have been burned should
not be burning @ all those ecosystems are called Tiaga or Boreal Forests which should be under snow
4 to 8 months a year, the forest floor and or ground levels are almost always wet with streams, lakes, ponds,
wetlands, rotting timber and stumps, ferns, moss, peat moss, evergreens such as blueberries and in many
places the underlying granitic layer keeps much of the water @ the surface level.

[leftstreet]

1. DURec

[Disaffected]

2. There are dead trees above the ground level in all kinds of forests.

And that includes Canada. The images shown are not indicative at all of the majority of Canadian forests in especially the summer months.

The problem is climate change and the resultant lack of rain over much of the country, similar to many other places on earth including the Amazon (and parts of the US).

[waterwatcher123]

3. The Boreal forest is drying out. As such, the trees that evolved in that landscape are dying and going up in flames.

Canada has 25% of the world's peat. If that peat dries out, it will also go up in flames and will be just about impossible to extinguish (have watched it burn completely covered in snow). MN also has one of the larger stores of peat in the lower 48. The same scenario applies to MN and any part of the Boreal forest that dips down into the lower 48 (basically the Canadian Shield bedrock that makes it a poorly drained region).

[Blue Full Moon]

4. Not smelling this smoke this time

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. Do you realize

that Siberia has been on fire for at least the past 5 years? We don't hear about it because we don't get much news out of Russia, but it has been---and most of their able-bodied firefighters are fighting Putin's stupid, useless, and land-grabbing war in Ukraine, so it burns unchecked for most of the summer. It dies down in winter because of snow, but starts right up again the following summer. So it ain't just Canadian smoke darkening the skies, particularly in the West.