Heavy wood smoke from the prior night's burning lasted well into the morning hours. Fortunately for all of us in this neighborhood, rain prevented the nightly burning from happening tonight. We were spared heavy air pollution because of the good graces of mother nature.
1:00 AM: Moderate wood smoke continues. The air is much too smoky to open the windows any time soon.
2:00 AM: Light wood smoke continues. The burner is letting their wood smolder all night long. Isn't that nice? It happens all the time in North St. Paul. I can go out for a walk on a Saturday or Sunday morning and find several areas where bonfires were left smoldering all night along my walking path. Sometimes the unattended smoldering bonfires continue to produce visible smoke. Fire safety isn't a concern of most of the asshole wood burners in this horrible city.
6:30 AM: The air is not fresh. Some type of pollutant lingers in the air, likely from the fire left smoldering all night long.
There was no wood smoke this evening. It was cool and it rained off and on during the day. We had a thunderstorm around 10 AM that left the ground and all the wood that would have otherwise been burned wet. It was 63 degrees and cloudy at 6 PM with a chance of more rain in the forecast.
After last night's brutal wood smoke pollution we deserved a night of fresh air!