Need help here….in Wisconsin, Midwest, and into Tennessee the air quality is in a deep red alert. And has been for the last week.
Supposedly coming from the Canada fires. My co-workers and I are questioning if this is the case. Why is it isolated to the Midwest? Where and what is the real source of this toxic spew?
Also looked at supposed fires. They show they are all over our state. Not true.
Anyone smarter than I when it comes to jet stream patterns and wind patterns. Would like your wisdom.
Never in my 20 years of living here have I seen anything like this. It is making many so sick. It smells like a chemical.
Can confirm (Northern Illinois) that it smells like a house fire- some wood, but mixed with plastics- like an electrical transformer or something. If it is a forest fire, something else is in there, burning.
Maybe a traincar of vinyl chloride or something.
I work in Rockford, but live in southern Wisconsin. This haze is so weird. I've never seen anything like it in my life. I was at Woodman's in Janesville earlier this afternoon and they were requiring "mandatory" drive up for loading your groceries due to the "air quality". I'm like what?! How does all of us driving our cars right up to the store doors so you can load our groceries make the air quality situation better? Apparently they weren't wanting staff to have to go out and fetch the carts. We pushed our groceries out to the truck and loaded them in then I delivered the cart back to the store. "Mandatory". I don't freaking think so.