Residents of New England are getting some extra smoke with their Memorial Day barbecues today, thanks to wildfires in Quebec, where over 50 fires are burning across the province. Normally the prevailing southwest wind would blow the Quebec smoke over Newfoundland but today a northwest wind is fouling the New England air and prompting some residents to call emergency numbers to report a fire.
Smoke moved into my town about 1730, good thing I knew it was in the area from talking with a friend on Cape Cod earlier 🙂
Was kind of weird to see smoke everywhere you looked!
It doesn’t help that we had a red flag warning in Maine yesterday – so, fire departments were getting calls about smoke from the Quebec fires and having to go out and check on most of them, since the fire danger was high here as well.