12:25 AM: Faint wood smoke. The air pollution is getting worse. I can hear some voices off in the distance, barely audible. They aren't on this block, I am not sure where they are. Somebody is having a backyard bonfire illegally after hours. But, the city of North St. Paul is such a smoky, horrible place to live, why not have a fire after midnight? Smoky air at 9 PM is no less of a nuisance than smoky air after midnight!
12:45 AM: Light wood smoke. It is getting smokier still. I hope city council member Jan Walczak has her windows open and is breathing smoky air in bed, if she even lives in this town.
1:00 AM: Light to moderate wood smoke. It is smokier now than it was 15 minutes ago. It is very smoky outside. Nobody is going to want to breathe this air in this nightmare town.
4:00 AM: The air is mostly fresh. Time to open the windows again.
12:22 PM: Faint grass smoke. We had a thunderstorm an hour or so ago and a good amount of rain. A little bit of drizzle is still coming down. And somebody is burning grass!
6:00 PM: No smoke. Since the grass smoke earlier, the air has been fresh. Will the air be filled with wood smoke tonight? Isn't it always? 76 degrees at this time, sunny, and a little windy.
7:00 PM: Light wood smoke for a few minutes. Then it was gone.
8:40 PM: No wood smoke.
9:15 PM: Faint variable wood smoke coming in on the wind. The burner is not near us.
9:50 PM: Faint to light wood smoke varying constantly. You can smell it for a few seconds, then it goes away for a little bit before returning. It is still a little windy. The wood burner could be a half mile away for all I know.
10:15 PM: No real wood smoke at this time.
11:30 PM: Very faint wood smoke is coming in on the breeze. It isn't much, but you can tell it is present.
Sunday morning, I was down by Silver Lake and smelled a smoldering wood smoke and burnt log smell coming from a house a couple of houses east of the intersection of 19th & Margaret. It was a faint odor of wood smoke, not just a burnt log smell. I think the wood was still smoldering. With last night's wind pattern, it is likely this was the source of the wood smoke we smelled a good distance away. At the time I passed by, the wind was blowing north. I went back around to 18th and smelled nothing. The smoke had to be coming from one of those houses on 19th or from a house directly behind.
Don't you like to smell burning wood at 5 AM?