It was another very smoky night in North St. Paul.
5:00 PM: No smoke. 65 degrees.
8:30 PM: No smoke yet.
9:00 PM: No smoke.
9:30 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke. The air is good and smoky. If you like breathing smoky, polluted air, you are going to love North St. Paul. You will breathe more wood smoke pollution in one summer than most people will during their entire lifetimes.
9:55 PM: Moderate wood smoke. It is very smoky outside. You do not want to breathe this toxic North St. Paul air if you can avoid it. 59 degrees. There is not much of a breeze to blow the smoke away. The wood smoke pollution saturates the entire area.
10:50 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke continues.
11:30 PM: Faint to light wood smoke continues.
You can see why we can never go to bed with the windows open and why everyone around here has to pay to run their air conditioners on cool summer nights.