A smoky morning and a smoky evening. This is a typical day in North St. Paul, MN.
1:00 AM: Light to moderate wood smoke continues.
5:00 AM: Very faint odor of wood smoke continues.
7:00 AM: Very faint trace of wood smoke can still be detected in the air.
10:00 AM: Air is clear.
4:40 PM: Very faint trace of wood smoke on the breeze. It did not last more than a minute. We were having dinner when the smoke was noticed. It was wood smoke, not grill smoke.
5:00 PM: No wood smoke here. I can see smoke rising in the distance. Not much of a breeze now. The smoke seems to be drifting away from us. Sometimes we get lucky in this town. Not often. About 75 degrees now, sunny, a beautiful evening to be alive -- except in this town. Living in North St. Paul, Minnesota, is like dying and going to hell.
6:00 PM: No smoke here. I can see a lot of smoke rising in the distance. It doesn't look like grill smoke. Same person is burning.
7:00 PM: Faint trace of something in the air. I can't say what it is.
8:00 PM: Faint wood smoke in the air. Someone is burning. I don't know where. No one around us is doing it.
8:30 PM: Faint wood smoke continues.
9:30 PM: Light wood smoke. It has gotten smokier and will get even smokier as the night wears on. It always does. 70 degrees and very nice outside at this time. Our windows are closed as they are every night in this miserable hell of a city.
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10:00 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke.
10:30 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke continues.
11:00 PM: Light wood smoke.
Midnight: Very faint trace of wood smoke and a sulfur smell can be detected. The sulfur smell is coming from the industrial section of town. The two odors combined smell a little like smoke from fireworks.
This evening was smoky but was not as bad as I expected. Do you want to breathe smoky air as you lie in bed at 11 PM? Who does? I woke up around 2 AM. There was a very faint trace of wood smoke and very faint sulfur in the air still. It is warm and stuffy inside the house. 77 degrees on the thermostat. I opened the windows to let the air in. The cool air felt so good. I was getting sweaty in bed because all the windows had to be closed as usual.