1:00 AM: Faint wood smoke continues. If you open your windows you will smell wood smoke inside your house. Do you want smoky air in your home at 1 AM? How about at 7 PM? We don't.
1:45 AM: Very faint wood smoke. Wood smoke is fading.
3:45 AM: Air is mostly fresh. Woke up and checked the air quality. Very faint trace of something is in the air. Can't tell what it is. Open windows at this time.
There was no grass smoke in the air this morning or afternoon.
4:30 PM: No wood smoke. Light rain drizzle at this time. Cloudy, 58 degrees measured at North High School according to the Weatherbug widget on this blog. 63 degrees according to TV website.
I don't know how many recreational bonfires there will be tonight with weather this cool and the light drizzle that dampened the ground. I expect people will be using fireplaces tonight and that the air will be very smoky like it was last Saturday night. Last Saturday was a smoky hell. It was the smokiest I have ever seen this city. I found clouds of smoke or wood smoke fog in many places around the northern half of the city. We will see if tonight gets as bad as last Saturday.
Click here to read about last Saturday.
5:15 PM: Very faint trace of wood smoke at this time. Minutes after publishing this post I noticed wood smoke coming in the window. It's already starting. We will likely have wood smoke all night long and well into the morning hours. Would you like to live like this?
6:00 PM: Light wood smoke. This is an indication of what is to come.
7:00 PM: Faint to light wood smoke varying with the breeze.
7:25 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke. It's getting stronger.
8:00 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke continues.
8:30 PM: Moderate wood smoke. It's really smoky outside.
9:30 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke varying with the wind. It's breezy outside.
9:45 PM: Moderate to strong wood smoke. Very smoky outside. You can't stand to breathe this air!
10:30 PM: Faint to light wood smoke. The intensity of the air pollution has diminished. It hasn't diminished enough to open the windows. The entire house would smell like wood smoke if the windows were open.
10:55 PM: Very faint trace of wood smoke remains. The wood smoke is almost gone.
11:38 PM: Very faint wood smoke. It's gotten a little stronger.
Midnight: Very faint wood smoke continues. Around 55 degrees at this time.
It was smoky all night long and all morning and afternoon into the next day. By 5:30 PM Sunday morning, wood smoke was in the air for almost all of the past 24 hours.
Aren't we fortunate to have four city council members who make us breathe smoky air every day? Would you like to live in this city?