I hadn't read much about the wildfires in Canada. I thought they were "way out west", or something like that.
Then... yesterday I walked out of the house in the afternoon (western CT), and thought there must be a big fire in town -- the air was getting cloudy with smoke. Almost getting "thick".
When I took my afternoon walk, sight lines that would have otherwise been clear were surprisingly obscured.
I realized that it was just too much smoke for any one fire, so I came in and did some quick searching on the net -- and found out the fires were up in Quebec.
There's something telling about this. This is the time of year when summer begins to replace spring, when the air turns from "mild" to "warmer" (if not "hot"). But it's remained relatively cool here -- the heat was on again last night, and I don't set the thermostat high (68).
We've had a few "warm spells" (usually 3 days long) in which the temps got up into the 80s. But other than that... not yet.
It seems as though the jetstream is "flowing lower" now, and we're getting more "air from the north". That doesn't mean the summer heat won't come. But it seems to be coming in "later" these last several years.
Hence the lower temperatures.
The smoke blowing in along with the northern winds is proof of that.
