If you live in the Northeast, Midwest or even the parts of the South then chances are you have seen and breathed in the smoke from the Canadian wildfires concentrated mainly in Quebec and parts of Eastern Ontario and to a lesser extent in Nova Scotia.
Of course, New York City bore the brunt of it as you can see in this video shot yesterday by my Dad in Central Park. Boston has been largely spared the worst of it but it has been worse in Western Massachusetts. I will be heading to Western Massachusetts on Saturday morning. Hopefully things will be alright, but I will be prepared.
The question going forward is if this an aberration like a passing ill wind or is it something we can look forward to as a regular feature of our summers as the impact of climate change lingers as we move past the first quarter of the 21st century.
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