Downtown Regina this morning with smoke in the air.
The weather report has been showing smoke from fires all day.
We are having heavy smoke today from forest fires in BC. The smoke from BC is covering the prairies all across Alberta and Saskatchewan and into Manitoba. This morning the Saskatchewan Health Ministry warned people with asthma and other respiratory and heart conditions to consider staying indoors with the windows closed. I went out to work this morning but didn't stay outside very long. I put the fan in the car on internal recirculate and didn't have any problem while driving. And we kept our windows closed at home. On the weekend Environment Canada says that rain showers in Saskatchewan could "cleanse the air" from this smoke.
There is a website BCwildfire.ca with reports on the fire situation. Today they are reporting that another 330 firefighters are coming from across the country to help the BC fire crews with the increased fire activity. And for everyone's sake we hope and pray for rain for BC to help get the fires under control.
2 comments:
That is terrible. Imagine what it must have been like in Moscow all summer from peat bog fires. Breath O2!!
We still have smoke this morning. The wind has shifted to come from the SE so the smoke should clear today.
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