It’s been a cooler and wetter summer than usual in Edmonton but after a week of heatwave, the hazy skies, red sun and poor air quality from wildfires are back.
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I think the smog that's currently blanketing Edmonton is combo of Slave Lake wildfire + the recycling plant in Sherwood Park. So, it's not just the toxicity from wood smoke, it's all those metals now in our air...🤢 Luckily, we are all trained in how to use an n95 😷 ca.news.yahoo.com/firefighters...
sep 1, 2025, 3:33 am • 3 1 • view
Yeah the recycling plant was especially bad yesterday, the air smells more typically wildfire smoky today (and it’s annoying that I can tell the difference now after years of this).
sep 1, 2025, 3:35 am • 6 0 • view
Yup and my asthma flared up; but happy this summer has been better than the past number of years
sep 1, 2025, 3:17 am • 3 0 • view
Yuck to asthma. My migraines will probably get worse too.
sep 1, 2025, 3:31 am • 2 0 • view
I drove through some smoke in southern Oregon and northern California today. Wasn't too thick on the ground but it still made my eyes sting. (That's something that happens with the first smoke of the year for me, but usually improves quickly.) Luckily I had eyedrops with me.
sep 1, 2025, 3:51 am • 2 0 • view
It’s definitely nastier the closer you get - on one of our road trips from Edmonton to Vancouver a couple years ago we drove quite close to an active wildfire in Hope and it was scary (even the dog knew something was weird).
sep 1, 2025, 3:58 am • 3 0 • view
I usually don't get near them but we've had some terrible smoke at ground level in previous years. Camp fire was bad, as was the closer lightning complex about an hour's drive away that we had drop ash on us.
sep 1, 2025, 4:02 am • 1 0 • view