Monday, April 11, 2011

Friday 04/08/2011 Air Pollution

3:00 PM: A very faint trace of wood smoke is coming in from the east. I found a hit of wood smoke back on Poplar-Swan and on the park on the eastern edge of Silver Lake. It looks like a nearby house had a bonfire the night before. Could the wood still be smoldering all these hours later?

5:30 PM: No smoke. 62 degrees and cloudy.

8:45 PM: Light grass smoke. The yard waste burning starts already in the city of North St. Paul!

9:07 PM: Light to moderate grass smoke. The yard waste burning is in full force.

9:20 PM: Light grass smoke continues.

10:20 PM: A faint grass smoke lingers in the air.

10:50 PM: A faint smokiness continues.

11:15 PM: Faint wood smoke. I can hear shouting and hollering off in the distance from a loud party. They are probably having a bonfire and producing the wood smoke we smell blocks away.

North St. Paul sucks!