It may not be the official start of summer, but summer starts with June for me. What does summer bring us? Smoky air!
Polluted air is a way of life in North Saint Paul, Minnesota. Summer is smokier than winter around these parts. When the kids get out of school for the summer, the wood smoke gets even worse.
7:00 PM: No wood smoke yet. 76 degrees. It was windy earlier around 3 PM and looked as if it might rain. Unfortunately, it did not. No rain and temperatures in the 70s means with near certainty that this will be another smoky, polluted evening in North St. Paul. As soon as I smell smoke coming in, the windows are getting closed.
There was no wood smoke this evening. It rained lightly around 11:30 PM. I last checked the air at midnight and it was free of wood smoke pollution. We will gladly take any evening we can get without smoky air.