It is a beautiful, summery day. This is our Indian Summer. With an absence of wood smoke for the last four days and weather as nice as this, there will certainly be bonfires tonight in the city of North St. Paul. I expect smoky air as usual.
5:30 PM: No wood or yard waste smoke yet. 87 degrees measured at North High School. It is sunny and beautiful!
6:30 PM: No smoke.
7:30 PM: No smoke. But there is a weird smell in the air. Almost like a fishy odor. It was in the air for a while a night or two ago.
8:30 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke and fishy smell. The North St. Paul nightmare returns. I hate this city! I have grown to despise North St. Paul, MN. We were very lucky to enjoy four consecutive days of smoke-free air. We are not so lucky tonight. I knew there would be wood smoke. There had to be. There almost always is. Close the windows!
You schmucks who run this city should be ashamed of yourselves for making us breathe smoky, polluted air so often. You suck!
8:50 PM: Light to moderate wood and leaf smoke. Somebody is burning leaves. It is another beautiful evening ruined by wood and yard waste smoke pollution.
10:00 PM: The air is mostly clear at this time. A very faint trace of smoke remains.
11:53 PM: The air is mostly clear. It is not fresh, but I cannot smell anything in it. Confident there would be no more smoke tonight, I opened the windows before bed.
The wood and yard waste smoke did not last too long tonight. I am inclined to believe that whoever was burning wood started a fire for the purpose of burning yard waste. People do that in this town. They start a fire in their firepit and rake their leaves and grass clippings into it. Regarding the fishy smell in the air, I am not sure what it was. Maybe it was a fish smell or something else. It did not last too long, either. I wonder what is causing it.