3:15 AM: Faint to light wood smoke. I woke up at this time to find the air still smoky. Isn't that nice the way our city council makes us breathe smoky air all night long?
5:00 AM: Air is clear of wood smoke.
There was no wood smoke this evening. It was surprising. It was 82 degrees at 5 PM, a beautiful late summer-early fall evening. There was some wood smoke in the morning before 10 AM. It did not last more than a few minutes. In North St. Paul, MN, we live at the whim of recreational air polluters. Any one of the hundreds of homes around us can burn any evening and our air can be smoky. It is legal. In this town, the small percentage of recreational burners have more rights than those of us who never burn.