Recreational Fires Must Be Eliminated

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WELCOME TO HELL ON EARTH

The air is smoky from burning wood in North St. Paul, MN, almost every evening. It is a nightmare. What used to be a nice place to live has become a living hell.

WARNING: If you buy a house in North St. Paul, MN, you will regret it! It may be the biggest, most expensive mistake you ever make. You will breathe smoky air almost every day of your life in this town. This is not an exaggeration. The wood smoke in this town gets heavy and gets heavy often. When you want to get out of this dump of a town, how many people do you think are going to want to buy a house in a city where heavy air pollution every night is normal and clean air is rare? This blog gets thousands of visitors every year. The word is out: North St. Paul is a horrible place to live!

Fresh air is very rare around here. If you are considering moving to North St. Paul or buying a home here, I strongly recommend that you do not do it no matter how good of a price you get. The only way you will be happy in this town is if you love breathing smoky air almost every day. North St. Paul, MN, is a horrible place to live because of the smoky air!

Burning wood, grass, leaves, paper, cardboard, and sometimes plastic, construction materials, and chemicals, if it is combustible it gets burned in North St. Paul and you are going to breathe it.

The air was smoky 25 out of 31 evenings in July 2009. We had 37 hours of continuous wood smoke in the air Aug. 29th - 31st. There was wood smoke in the air 19 consecutive evenings from Aug. 21st to Sept. 8th. It rained heavily on Aug. 20th, providing the only relief we got from wood smoke for almost three weeks.

Is this a good way to live? No. It is a horrible way to live. Take it from someone who knows. Breathing smoky, polluted air every day is misery.

Every day in this city several people are having recreational fires. Every evening the air is filled with the stench of burning wood. I am one person sick and tired of breathing smoky air every day. Is it too much to ask to be able to breathe fresh air in your own home?

Who is responsible for this wood smoke nightmare? The four city council members are responsible. Council members Jan Walczak, Bob Bruton, Terry Furlong, and Dave Zick have refused to do anything about this wood smoke problem. They don't care if you have a child with asthma. They don't care if you have to live like a shut-in because the air is so polluted. They don't care if your sinuses burn because the wood smoke is so heavy.

Our four Council members have defended the rights of a small percentage of households to burn wood daily over the rights of all the rest of us to breathe.

You have no right to breathe under Walczak, Bruton, Furlong, and Zick. Burners have the right to burn wood 49 hours a week recreationally. The rest of us have no rights at all.

If you are considering purchasing real estate in the city of North Saint Paul, Minnesota (55109), factor this blog carefully into your decision. Buying a home in this city means that your kids will breathe smoky air while playing in the yard almost every day. Your baby will breathe smoky air in her crib should you leave the windows open around your house. If you leave your windows open you will wake up in the middle of the night choking on smoky air.

Perhaps worst of all, your utility rates will be high because you will have to run the air conditioner instead of leaving the windows open on a cool summer evening. You have no other choice because almost every night the air is too smoky to breathe in this city. Consider this blog your warning.

North St. Paul, Minnesota, is a wonderful community other than the wood smoke. If we could restore fresh air like we used to enjoy, life would be happy again. But that is not going to happen any time soon.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Monday 05/30/2011 Air Pollution

Memorial Day. Strong winds and the warm humid air kept most wood burners at bay but not all of them. There was no wood smoke where we live. But there were two wood burners within two blocks of us burning in high winds. Very unsafe. The wind kept the smoke from making it to our property. 84 degrees and humid at 5 PM with strong wind gusts. I spent some time outside enjoying the smell of lilacs and tree blossoms until the wind gust blew dirt into my eyes. It rained a little about half past Midnight Tuesday morning. We slept with the windows open. That is something we cannot do often in this city. The temperature was a warm 79 degrees at midnight.

It was nice to enjoy a pleasant evening without smoky air for a change.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Sunday 05/29/2011 Air Pollution

It was another smoky evening in the city of North St. Paul. As usual. I hate this city. When the housing market recovers we are out of this shitty city. North St. Paul is a horrible place to live.

5:45 PM: No smoke. Cloudy, looks like rain. Rain will be the only thing that saves us from another smoky night. 68 degrees.

6:00 PM: A very faint trace of wood smoke is in the air. Somewhere someone is burning.

6:14 PM: A few drops of drizzle fell. It did not last more than a minute or so.

7:45 PM: Light wood smoke. As always in the evening when it isn't raining, the air is smoky.

8:30 PM: Light wood smoke continues.

9:30 PM: Light wood smoke continues.

10:00 PM: Very faint wood smoke. We had a short sprinkle of rain between now and the last check. It is not raining now.

11:00 PM: Fresh air!

There was no more wood smoke this night.

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Saturday 05/28/2011 Air Pollution

We were treated to grass smoke just before and after the rain this afternoon. If it does not rain any more we are in for one hell of a smoky night.

3:20 PM: Faint to light grass smoke at this time. Someone is illegally burning yard waste before the rain moves in. This is common. Grass burners see the rain clouds approaching and hurry to get their burning done. 69 degrees.

3:38 PM: A very faint trace of grass smoke lingers. Rain started to fall about this time.

4:45 PM: Light grass smoke. Sunny at this time. The rain did not last very long unfortunately. A yard waste burner is making the most of the situation to burn some grass.

5:30 PM: No smoke.

6:00 PM: No smoke.

7:00 PM: A very faint trace of some type of smoke is in the air. It is not enough to require closure of windows. 68 degrees and getting cloudy again. Please rain.

Sadly, it did not rain and we did have a smoky evening. As we usually do. North St. Paul sucks!

8:00 PM: No smoke.

8:55 PM: Very faint wood smoke. The burning has started. Close the windows.

9:25 PM: Faint wood smoke.

9:50 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke. The air is smoky. Too smoky to sit outside or have the windows open. North St. Paul sucks!

10:40 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke continues.

11:20 PM: No smoke. Where did the air pollution go? The burning stopped or the breeze shifted direction.

11:40 PM: A very faint trace of wood smoke is in the air. Last check of the evening.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Friday 05/27/2011 Air Pollution

2:15 AM: Faint smokiness lingers in the air from last evening's brush burning.

4:10 PM: Faint to light wood or brush smoke is in the air at this time. 62 degrees and cloudy. It could be another smoky hell of an evening in North St. Paul. It's a holiday weekend. But the weather forecast is not good. Rain is in the forecast for tonight. I hope it rains before the bonfires start. The sooner the better to put a damper on yard waste burners, too.

There was no more wood or yard waste smoke tonight. It was drizzling by 5:45 PM for a short while and we had another sprinkle later before it started raining after 11 PM. The rain is the only thing that allows us to enjoy fresh air in this town.

Thursday 05/26/2011 Air Pollution

Extremely heavy, sinus burning brush smoke tonight that lasted for hours. Do you want to live in a city like this?

4:30 PM: No smoke. Clear sky. 63 degrees and sunny.

6:00 PM: No smoke.

7:00 PM: No smoke.

7:30 PM: Strong brush smoke. The smoke is extremely heavy! Close the windows! The smoke is so strong that breathing it for a few seconds makes your sinuses burn. Just sticking my head out the door to take a few breaths caused my sinuses to burn. This is some of the strongest air pollution we have ever experienced in the city of North St. Paul. And that is really saying something.

8:00 PM: Strong brush smoke continues. The air is hazy with smoke.

9:00 PM: Strong brush smoke continues.

10:00 PM: Strong brush smoke continues.

11:00 PM: Moderately strong brush smoke at this time. The intensity of the air pollution is decreasing after over three hours of constant extremely heavy smoke.

Midnight: Light brush smoke. I think the yard waste burner left the pile of brush to smolder all night. How is that for fire safety?

When I woke at 2:15 AM a faint amount of brush smoke was still in the air.

I see firepits filled with brush, grass, and cardboard all the time. That stuff gets burned and ends up in the lungs of all of us. Do you want to buy a house in a city like this? Do you want your babies and children breathing this type of air pollution?

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Wednesday 05/25/2011 Air Pollution

5:00 PM: No smoke. Cloudy and breezy. 63 degrees.

6:20 PM: No smoke. It is a little windy and cool for recreational burning. We will see what happens tonight. 64 degrees.

There was no wood or yard waste smoke tonight.

Tuesday 05/24/2011 Air Pollution

5:20 PM: Light grass smoke at this time. Someone is illegally burning yard waste. This is common. Cloudy, 67 degrees.

6:00 PM: No smoke. Cloudy. It looked like it might rain but did not until early morning the next day.

8:00 PM: No smoke. We are enjoying the fresh air.

10:10 PM: Very faint to faint wood smoke at this time. It is breezy so the smoke is not constant. Someone somewhere is burning wood. It's a little cool and breezy for a bonfire. 64 degrees at this time.

11:00 PM: No smoke. Last check of the evening.

Monday, May 23, 2011

Monday 05/23/2011 Air Pollution

Will we have smoky air this evening? Having lived in North St. Paul long enough to have endured hundreds and hundreds of nice evenings ruined by smoky air, I would bet money on it.

6:20 PM: No smoke yet. 75 degrees and gorgeous.

8:00 PM: Still no smoke. But it is still early. 73 degrees. Spent some time outside. An absolutely beautiful evening. Surely someone somewhere will be burning wood. That goes without question. The only question is whether or not the breeze will bring the smoke to our property.

9:00 PM: There is a very faint trace of some type of smoke in the air. It is not strong enough to determine the type.

10:30 PM: No smoke. Last check of the evening.

We witnessed a miracle. It was a gorgeous evening with no real wood smoke in the air. Two very smoky burners who lived upwind from us have been foreclosed and moved out in the past 10 months. Our air quality is all the better for it.

Sunday 05/22/2011 Air Pollution

A couple people managed to get in some wood burning in between rain showers this evening. It rained on and off all day today. Heavy rain in the morning followed by spotty showers in the afternoon and evening with some breaks of sun in between. We did not get much of a storm in North St. Paul. But the unfortunate people in Minneapolis were hit by a tornado.

4:20 PM: No smoke. Sunny at this time. 66 degrees.

5:50 PM: No smoke. 69 degrees. Rain drizzling around this time.

6:20 PM: No smoke. Rain has stopped. Sunny at this time.

6:37 PM: A very faint trace of wood smoke is in the air.

8:00 PM: A very faint trace of wood smoke is still in the air. I went out at this time and tracked the source of the smoke to an area a quarter mile away from us. I also found smoky air along the western edge of Silver Lake. People in two areas found time to burn wood in between rain showers.

8:25 PM: Rain clouds are moving in.

8:45 PM: No smoke. It is raining at this time. It rained lightly for a little while followed by heavy rain for a few minutes then it stopped.

10:45 PM: No smoke. Last check of the evening.

There really was not much wood smoke where we live. This will count as an evening with no smoke. We did not need to close the windows because the smoke that was outside was hardly noticeable. While the wood smoke was hardly noticeable, I was able to track it to its source where it was very noticeable.

Saturday 05/21/2011 Air Pollution

In between rain showers somebody managed to burn some grass. Can you believe it? This is normal in North St. Paul. If there is a break in the rain, somebody somewhere will find something to burn.

It rained on and off all morning.

11:45 AM: No smoke. Rain at this time.

2:15 PM: No smoke. Sunny at this time.

4:30 PM: No smoke, still sunny. 72 degrees.

5:40 PM: No smoke.

6:07 PM: No smoke. It rained for a few minutes around this time.

7:32 PM: Faint grass smoke coming in the windows. There were tornadoes in the west metro earlier. We escaped the storm in North St. Paul.

7:40 PM: Faint grass smoke continues. There was a brief rain sprinkle shortly after this time.

8:25 PM: No smoke. The sound of thunder in the distance can be heard.

10:50 PM: No smoke. Last check of the evening.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Friday 05/20/2011 Air Pollution

5:00 PM: No wood smoke. Cloudy, it drizzled a little while earlier and there was light rain this afternoon in the Twin Cities area. 70 degrees. Rain is in the forecast for this evening. There is a chance of thunderstorms Saturday evening. I'm hoping for rain. That is the only way we will have breathable air.

There was no wood or yard waste smoke pollution this evening. It drizzled on and off all evening and was raining by 11:30 PM. The air was fresh all night long.

Thursday 05/19/2011 Air Pollution

4:00 PM: Faint grass smoke at this time. 68 degrees.

5:00 PM: No smoke. 69 degrees and cloudy.

Other than the yard waste smoke earlier, there was no wood smoke tonight. The smell of blossoms is in the air. It is heavenly to be outside and inhale a deep breath of perfumed air.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Wednesday 05/18/2011 Air Pollution

5:30 PM: No smoke. Fresh air. 69 degrees and cloudy.

7:00 PM: No smoke. Cloudy. Looks like rain.

There was no wood or yard waste smoke this evening. It was a wonderful evening of fresh air! It is really nice to sit outside and enjoy the evening air before the bugs get thick. Mosquitoes are already out so it will be a buggy summer.

Tuesday 05/17/2011 Air Pollution

It was a normal smoky evening in North St. Paul.

4:45 PM: No smoke. 65 degrees and sunny.

5:40 PM: Faint wood smoke for a few minutes then it was gone. Is someone burning brush? Did the breeze shift direction?

7:45 PM: Light wood smoke. Damn this polluted city. I was sitting watching TV when I smelled smoke coming in. Close the windows! That's our evening ritual in this town. When you smell smoke -- and we do almost every evening when the weather is nice -- jump up and close the windows or else your entire home will reek of burning wood within minutes. When the smoke is in, you cannot get rid of it.

I went out searching for the source of the wood smoke. I found it. One of city council member Jan Walczak's neighbors had what may have been a bonfire. It looked like the house on Lake Blvd. behind her and a couple houses over was doing the burning. I could see smoke rising from the backyard on Helen St. Behind on Lake Blvd. I could see a column of smoke rising from a yard. I could not see any flames. Only smoke. A column of smoke rising and polluting the air we must breathe. We could smell that smoke blocks away.

That's why we hate North St. Paul. One person has a bonfire and everyone has to breathe smoky, polluted air because of that one bonfire burner. One person decides to burn and hundreds of people are nuisanced by the smoke. The smoke from one small bonfire can be smelled up to a half mile away if the breeze is right. When I passed by city council member Jan Walczak's house while looking for the source of the burning, I noticed it was smoky in front of her house and that none of the windows visible from the road were open. Why not, Jan? Don't you want to breathe your neighbor's bonfire smoke inside your home? You make us breathe smoky air every day, Jan. We live like prisoners in our own home because of you, Ms. Walczak. The least you can do is open your windows and let the wood smoke you love so much inside of your home and into your lungs.

I first complained to Jan Walczak about the horrible wood smoke pollution in North St. Paul in May of 2008. She was of no help. I hope her neighbors have a lot of smoky bonfires this summer.

8:45 PM: No smoke where we live. The slight breeze shifted direction. The smoke from the fire slowly drifts and does not vacate quickly. I can smell the smoke at the end of the street but not in our yard.

10:00 PM: No smoke. The air is not fresh. Smells like someone is cooking.

11:00 PM: No smoke. Last check of the evening.

Monday 05/16/2011 Air Pollution

There was no wood smoke this evening and no illegal yard waste burning. It was a very nice evening with fresh air. The temperature at 5 PM was 68 degrees. When it warms up a little more and when the kids are out of school is when the bonfires really get going.

Monday, May 16, 2011

Sunday 05/15/2011 Air Pollution

There was no yard waste burning today and no wood smoke this evening. It was a miracle! It was 63 degrees at 6:30 PM, a little cool for this time of year. If it was warmer, there would have been some bonfires somewhere smoking up the air. Sundays tend to be one of the smokiest nights of the week.

Saturday 05/14/2011 Air Pollution

There was no wood smoke today. Last Saturday night was smoky as hell. We got lucky tonight thanks to drizzling rain during the late morning and early afternoon that left everything wet and unseasonably cool temperatures. The evening temperature was 50 degrees. Nobody had any bonfires and nobody around us was using a fireplace. The fresh air was nice.

Friday 05/13/2011 Air Pollution

4:00 PM: No smoke. 54 degrees. Cloudy. We had some rain earlier in the Twin Cities.

6:05 PM: Faint wood smoke. 55 degrees.

7:00 PM: No smoke.

9:30 PM: No smoke.

10:00 PM: No smoke.

Midnight: A very faint trace of wood smoke is in the air at this time.

Thursday 05/12/2011 Air Pollution

4:45 PM: No smoke. 54 degrees and cloudy. There was some light rain earlier this afternoon.

7:00 PM: No smoke.

8:00 PM: No smoke.

9:45 PM: Moderately strong, very stinky wood smoke is in the air. The air is very smoky and reeks something terrible.

10:00 PM: Moderate stinky wood smoke continues. Last check of the evening.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Wednesday 05/11/2011 Air Pollution

5:15 PM: No smoke. The air is nice and fresh. 78 degrees according to the weather widget on this blog, partly cloudy and a little humid. The TV news has the temperature at the airport at 73 degrees. It feels warmer than that here.

8:00 PM: No smoke yet.

9:15 PM: A very faint trace of some type of smoke is in the air.

10:00 PM: No smoke.

There was no real smoke this evening.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Tuesday 05/10/2010 Air Pollution

3:00 AM: Very faint to faint waste smoke continues. The smoke started sometime after 11:00 PM last night and continues now. It is not wood or yard waste being burned. It smells a lot like paper.

5:15 PM: No smoke. 87 degrees, sunny, and a little humid.

8:00 PM: No smoke.

8:20 PM: Very faint grass smoke. Somebody is burning yard waste again.

9:00 PM: No smoke.

10:00 PM: No smoke. Last check of the evening.

Monday 05/09/2011 Air Pollution

Things were going good until somebody somewhere decided to do a little late night waste burning that lasted well after midnight.

5:30 PM: No smoke. Fresh clean air! 68 degrees and mostly cloudy.

7:00 PM: No smoke.

9:00 PM: Still no smoke.

10:00 PM: No smoke.

11:15 PM: Light smoke possibly from burning paper. I got out of bed around this time to find the outside air stinking of something that I believe to be burning paper. It was not wood, grass, or other yard waste. It smelled a lot like burning paper but not exactly. The smoke seemed to be coming out of the southeast as the wind was blowing west-northwest.

At 3 AM the following morning there was still some of that waste smoke in the air. If the windows were open, the house would have reeked of whatever was being burned.

No matter which direction the wind blows, it is always smoky in North St. Paul.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Sunday 05/08/2011 Air Pollution

Nothing says "Happy Mother's Day" like burning grass smoke.

I found six spots with smoky air from smoldering bonfires within an area of a little more than a half mile square this morning when I was out. The second house north of the cemetery on the North St. Paul side of Helen Street had a cloud of smoke rising from its unattended firepit around 7 AM. The homeowner evidently did not even bother to extinguish his bonfire, leaving it to burn itself out all night long. The firepit was generating a good amount of smoke with no visible flames.

7:00 AM: Fresh air where we live. I found faint wood smoke in several other places as I noted above.

12:10 PM: Faint to light grass smoke. Wouldn't you know it? Somebody is burning grass on Mother's Day. Sadly, I cannot say this is shocking. I've lived in this town long enough to know that somebody is going to be burning something almost every day. North St. Paul sucks!

12:40 PM: Faint grass smoke continues.

2:00 PM: No smoke. Light rain at this time. The rain did not last very long.

4:00 PM: No smoke.

6:00 PM: No smoke.

7:00 PM: No smoke. 62 degrees.

There was no more smoke for the duration of the night. Other than the yard waste burning in the early afternoon, this was a good day for air quality. Much better than the extremely heavy wood smoke of the night before.

Saturday 05/07/2011 Air Pollution

It was a smoky, polluted hell of a day. Grass burning during the late morning and afternoon and extremely heavy wood smoke after dark. What did we do to deserve such abuse from our city? The only crime we committed was choosing to live in North St. Paul.

We are prisoners in our own home once again. You can't sit outside and enjoy the nice spring weather because the air is too smoky to breathe. You can't open your windows because your entire home and everything in it will reek of burning wood. All you can do is stay inside your home with everything closed to try and seal out the heavy wood smoke pollution. We are air pollution refugees.

11:15 AM: Faint to light grass smoke. I was sitting against an interior wall of the house when I smelled grass smoke coming in. The bedrooms reeked of burning grass. I shut the windows. North St. Paul sucks. 62 degrees and sunny at this time.

11:30 AM: No smoke. The grass smoke is gone.

11:55 AM: Light grass smoke. The smoke from burning yard waste returns.

12:05 PM: Burning grass and what smells like burning paper. It is not plain grass that is being burned.

1:30 PM: No smoke.

6:00 PM: No smoke. 72 degrees.

7:00 PM: Light wood smoke at this time. It's starting already. We are in for a long smoky hell of a night. It's going to be a normal polluted night in North St. Paul to put it differently. Sitting outside and breathing this air is not pleasant. Breathing this air is as enjoyable as a cigarette smoker blowing smoke in your face constantly.

8:00 PM: Light wood smoke continues.

9:00 PM: Light wood and grass smoke. There was burning grass smoke last night at this time. Could it be the same household disposing of yard waste this evening, too?

10:00 PM: Moderately strong wood smoke. The air is very smoky. You do not want to breathe this toxic North St. Paul air.

11:00 PM: Moderate to strong wood smoke. The air is extremely smoky right now! This level of smoke pollution is inhumane! But heavy wood smoke like this is common in this town. To give you an idea of how heavy the smoke is, I can smell it coming in with all the windows and doors closed. These old houses have lots of cracks and gaps where North St. Paul air pollution can infiltrate.

The only way to escape the horrific air pollution in North St. Paul is to leave the city.

11:55 PM: Moderate to strong wood smoke continues. The air remains extremely smoky and unbreathable.

When I checked the air at 2:30 AM it was mostly clear. It is common for the air to be smoky all night long in North St. Paul. To have mostly clear air this early means we are lucky.

Do you want to live in a city like this?

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Friday 05/06/2011 Air Pollution

Our streak of smoke-free air has ended. We had a good six days without any wood or yard waste burning. That's a miracle in North St. Paul.

4:30 PM: No smoke. 70 degrees. A beautiful spring day.

6:00 PM: Still no smoke. Fresh air.

9:00 PM: Moderate grass and other assorted yard waste smoke. Some sneaky person thinks burning under cover of darkness will allow them to illegally burn waste unnoticed. As strong as the smoke is, the burner cannot be that far away. None of our immediate neighbors is burning anything and I cannot see where the smoke is coming from. If it is this strong here, how strong is the smoke right next door to the burner?

10:00 PM: The air is mostly clear at this time but a faint smokiness lingers. The air is not fresh. 64 degrees.

Midnight: A very faint trace of some type of smoke lingers. It could be a smoldering pile of burnt yard waste from earlier.

I was astonished there was no wood smoke from bonfires this evening. Could the fad of recreational air pollution be over? Not likely.

Friday, May 6, 2011

Thursday 05/05/2011 Air Pollution

There was no wood or yard waste smoke this evening. The air was wonderfully fresh all night long! The temperature at 6 PM was 62 degrees. A little cool for bonfires. The sweet spot for bonfires is an evening temperature between 65 and 85 degrees. I stepped outside and took several deep breaths of fresh air. Soon this will be impossible because the air will be filled with wood smoke pollution every evening. This was the sixth evening in a row without wood or yard waste smoke. It has been a long time since we have had a streak of fresh air of so many days.

You will never appreciate the importance of clean air until you have lived in North St. Paul. Smoky air most evenings gets tiresome after a while. We have been dealing with heavily polluted air for years now.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Wednesday 05/04/2011 Air Pollution

There was no wood smoke this evening. I was shocked! The air was wonderfully fresh all evening. The temperature at 6:10 PM was 65 degrees and it was nice and sunny. It was a nice spring day. The temperature finally reached the normal average high for this time of year.

This was the fifth day in a row without wood or yard waste smoke. Fresh air was the norm back in the late 1990s. We never had to close the windows because of wood or yard waste smoke. North St. Paul would be a nice place to live if it were not for that horrible wood smoke pollution problem plaguing this town.

Fresh air should be a right. But it isn't in this town. Anyone can start burning at any time and there is nothing we can legally do about it. We live completely at the mercy of air polluters.

Tuesday 05/03/2011 Air Pollution

There was no wood smoke this evening. It was a little cool for bonfires. The temperature at 5 PM was 58 degrees and it was sunny. Bonfires are not too common when the evening temperature is below 65 degrees.

Monday 05/02/2011 Air Pollution

There was no wood smoke this evening as it was another unseasonably cool day. There was a strange odor in the air at 4:15 PM. I do not know what it was. The temperature was 37 degrees at 4:15 PM. The normal high temperature for this time of year is 65 degrees.

Sunday 05/01/2011 Air Pollution

There was no wood smoke this evening and I noticed no yard waste smoke at all today. It was another windy evening. The temperature at 6:45 PM was 41 degrees and it was cloudy. Too cold and windy for bonfires.

Saturday 04/30/2011 Air Pollution

There was no wood smoke this evening. It was unseasonably cool and very windy, too windy for a bonfire. I did not notice any yard waste smoke today. It rained well into the morning hours leaving everything wet. The temperature at 6:30 PM was 60 degrees. We will take fresh air any way we can get it in this town.