6:00 AM: No smoke. Fresh air.
10:00 AM: A very faint trace of some type of smoke is in the air.
11:40 AM: A very faint trace of smoke continues.
1:05 PM: Faint to light leaf smoke. Somebody is burning yard waste instead of watching the Vikings football game. I hate this city. Somebody is always burning something and polluting the air we must breathe. Sunny, 54 degrees at this time.
2:00 PM: Fresh air.
5:00 PM: No smoke. Fresh air for the time being. 61 degrees and sunny.
6:00 PM: No smoke where we live. Smoky air everywhere else. The air was smoky only a half block from us. I went for a walk at this time. I could not stand breathing the smoky, polluted air while getting some exercise so I made my walk shorter than I would have liked. Living in North St. Paul, MN, is like living in hell. You will breathe smoky air every day of your life in this horrible nightmare city. 56 degrees.
7:35 PM: No smoke where we live. The air is not fresh, but I cannot identify anything in it.
9:00 PM: No smoke.
10:00 PM: No smoke.
11:00 PM: No smoke.
Midnight: I checked the air after midnight when I woke up and it was fresh.
The wind was in our favor tonight. The air outside our home was free of wood smoke. The air was smoky only a few hundred feet from our home. Somebody down the street likely had a fireplace or wood stove burning. We get lucky sometimes. If the wind pattern had been different, our air would have been smoky as it almost always is.