Thursday, June 10, 2010

Thursday 06/10/2010 Air Pollution

12:35 AM: Light wood smoke continues. Cannot open windows. We did enjoy three evenings in a row without wood smoke pollution. That is about all you can hope for in North St. Paul, Minnesota. 60 degrees at this time.

2:00 AM: Faint to light wood smoke continues.

4:00 AM: A faint wood smokiness lingers in the air.

6:00 AM: Fresh air!

6:15 PM: No wood smoke yet. Cloudy, cool, 65 degrees measured at North High School. It was supposed to rain today. Most of it missed us. We had a couple spots with a few drops of rain. Not much. Will tonight be another smoky hell? Schools are letting out for the summer. It only gets worse from here.

7:38 PM: Faint grass smoke coming in the window. Whoever is burning grass, I cannot determine their direction because the wind is shifting directions every few seconds. The grass smoke did not last more than a couple of minutes. Yesterday, the grass smoke started faintly, disappeared, then got pretty strong. I hope the same does not happen tonight. Cloudy, a little windy at this time.

8:05 PM: A very faint trace of something is in the air.

8:35 PM: Very faint grass smoke.

9:00: No smoke.

9:45 PM: A very faint smokiness of some type is in the air. It smells like wood smoke.

10:30 PM: No wood smoke.

11:15 PM: No wood smoke. Off to bed.

11:55 PM: No wood smoke.

We had a little smoke from burning grass this evening. But no real wood smoke. I cannot complain too much. Around 3 AM, a thunderstorm moved into the area. I felt it was safe to open the bedroom windows at that time.