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Just after I post about fire risk increasing in northern Alberta & the NWT, I go to rest a bit in the other room, that has the window open, & notice a distinct smell of smoke. 😣

It looks like the worst of the smoke is going to pass north & east of Edmonton over the next few days (see forecast), but those forecasts are notoriously unreliable so I guess I'm back to checking AQ any time I go out or open a window.

Bad air just when it gets hot out. Great.

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Map of central & northern Alberta from aqicn.org, with coloured flags showing air quality readings using the US EPA scale. There is an approximate diagonal division passing from the northwest to the southeast, running through the Edmonton area in the middle: the the south and west of the line, polution readings are all very low, in green. To the north and east, readings are marked in yellow and orange, up to 142 AQI. (Which is still much, much less than the worst it gets.)

72h Hourly Maps at Ground Level - 12 UTC - Prairies - Environment Canada

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