2025 52 Card Project: Week 31: Smoke

[pegkerr]

The weather was so perfect last weekend. Not too humid. No rain. No clouds. Temperature in the upper seventies.

And we couldn't be outside enjoying any of it because smoke from the Canadian wildfires filled the air with choking haze, giving us the second-worst air quality in the entire world. I spent the weekend inside, huddled up close to my HEPA air purifier, furiously resenting that I couldn't be out enjoying my front porch.

The headline in the local paper pretty much summed it up: we're sick of this.

Image description: Background: an urban landscape, barely discernible through a thick layer of smoke. Text reads: 'This summer has been hot, smoky, soggy. Minnesotans are sick of it. Slightly more than half of days since mid-May have featured heavy rain, high heat, bad air or some combination in the Twin Cities. Twin Cities summer weather has dealt miserable conditions.' Below is a graph indicating days with poor weather conditions. Bottom Center: an Oransi air purifier.

Smoke



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Comments

[minnehaha]

I made a HEPA air filter out of a box fan, a furnace filter, and some duct tape.

K. [the filter was highly rated to remove tiny particulates like those in smoke]

[pameladean]

It's so maddening. The wind turns to coming out of the northwest, we get delightful cool, dry air, and with it comes the smoke. I can't remember the last time a cold front from the northwest did not bring horrific smoke with it.

I also don't much like the fact that so much of Canada is just burning up.

And the Minnesota Republicans, at state and national level, who thought it was smart to write to some Canadian official and scold them for letting their smoke over our border, is just the icing.

P.

[lydamorehouse]

Nice card and I agree!