HoarfrostHubb Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 4 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: There was a time back in either the 80’s or maybe early 90’s when there was a ton of fires in West Va. I remember the skies here were thick with smoke from those , but not sure if it was this bad I don’t recall that event. I can’t say I have ever seen smoke like this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 15 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said: Yeah 'been wondering. Not sure what the return rate is on smoke circumventing the global and choking far away geographies. I remember .. shoot, I wanna say 2003, summer. There were wild fires in Canada that summer and we got stuck in a high troposphere conveyor that brought a lot of smoke down but confined above~ > 20 K elevation. I mean it looked like busted mammata up there under ... 80 F with a dim orb sun. I thought that was impressive. Never on the ground though. I was just thinking about this very same subject an hour ago, when we bottomed out at 2 mi vis in yellow pall under diffused headache blinding obliterating sun shine, just how weird it was how you could smell what burned 2500 miles away. I don't recall that kind of fully integrated over-turning, either. 7/7/2002 That was fairly similar with mostly 2SM vis, but it was a little more widespread. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone-68 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Maybe some interesting reading: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England's_Dark_Day 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 8 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: I don’t recall that event. I can’t say I have ever seen smoke like this before. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 This is pretty extraordinary. First time I can recall smelling smoke and seeing visibility this low. Normal day on top, today on bottom. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 My senior year in HS (1963) included a super smoky October as a fire was burning all month in the state forest 5-6 miles away. Each day we could track where the fire was hottest by spotting the thickest/tallest smoke column. Much smaller than the sources of today's smoke (~3,000 acres) but stubborn. Glaciers had dumped loads of boulders there and trees/mountain laurel had grown up thru the spaces between rocks. Duff and litterfall desiccated by the driest October on record (0.14" in NYC, 0.10" on the 31st) burned readily and with roots/litter among the rock gardens, firefighters would be watering down flames in front only to have more follow the fuel and pop up behind. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klw Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 35 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: There was a time back in either the 80’s or maybe early 90’s when there was a ton of fires in West Va. I remember the skies here were thick with smoke from those , but not sure if it was this bad So are you saying that you are little hazy on the details? On a different note, it looks like some storms moving into NVT in a hour or so. 3 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DomNH Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Looks like I traded 65F and drizzle for FU. Can’t wait to be home. F me. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TalcottWx Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 This smoke is incredible. I know Dendrite posted July 2 2002, but I was 11 when that happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianW Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Cool site to track the smoke and air quality. https://fire.airnow.gov/# 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrisrotary12 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 As others have remarked, I too don't remember smoke at the surface like this. This is two events this month. I recall many events where the smoke was elevated though. The smell today is different than I remember though. I seem to remember smelling burnt pine in the past. But today smells like burnt plastic almost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 2 hours ago, CoastalWx said: Man FROPAs of yore on guidance. A chilly first week of August on guidance. That 12z GFS was just below normal 2-M and 850mb for like 7 days straight starting Saturday or even just later this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torch Tiger Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Love this weather and smoke. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 2 hours ago, dendrite said: 7/7/2002 That was fairly similar with mostly 2SM vis, but it was a little more widespread. I was living in Winchester MA at the time.. I memory that as a very elevated smoke layer. I also recall looping sat and it was a narrow band but ..could be miss-remembering - .. heh, working on 20 years ago. yeah, here it is - 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 That’s pretty cool. I def don’t remember it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 55 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said: As others have remarked, I too don't remember smoke at the surface like this. This is two events this month. I recall many events where the smoke was elevated though. The smell today is different than I remember though. I seem to remember smelling burnt pine in the past. But today smells like burnt plastic almost. Just a thought ... 2002 and other fires of smokey lore, were really our backyard geographies. I mean Ontario? c'mon This? Come from across the continent, where from/via passage over and through industry - just wondering if there is some weird binding with industrial aerosol waste mixing in with it then being worked on by UV ... viola. We have a special kind of carcinogenic nox - lol... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxWatcher007 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Nuts 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 The sun lowers. The smoke plume appears to have raised just a bit higher. Early afternoon it was at sea level Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dendrite Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 42 minutes ago, Typhoon Tip said: I was living in Winchester MA at the time.. I memory that as a very elevated smoke layer. I also recall looping sat and it was a narrow band but ..could be miss-remembering - .. heh, working on 20 years ago. yeah, here it is - More here… https://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/68737.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Damage In Tolland Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 4 minutes ago, dendrite said: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 My son is at the game at Fenway tonight 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 2 minutes ago, HoarfrostHubb said: My son is at the game at Fenway tonight Look at that haze. Crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 You guys remember this guy before they spilt the subforums? His name was Pbard. I mean lololol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 50 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: The sun lowers. The smoke plume appears to have raised just a bit higher. Early afternoon it was at sea level No longer Smoke on the Water? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSC97wxnut Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Really does smell like a camp fire too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreaves Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 26 minutes ago, Damage In Tolland said: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KoalaBeer Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Hampton, NH looking over the salt marsh. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginx snewx Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 So my view from the womens softball field at IJD, no filter 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolri_wx Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 4 hours ago, Ginx snewx said: Rain rain I don't mind the weather is fine. If the rain comesThey run and hide their headsThey might as well be deadIf the rain comesIf the rain comes When the sun shinesThey slip into the shade(When the sun shines down)And sip their lemonade(When the sun shines down)When the sun shinesWhen the sun shines Rain, I don't mindShine, the weather's fine B-side of Paperback Writer. Great track! Underrated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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