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07-09-2012, 09:54 PM
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Its smoke actually and its coming from Russia! What's causing the smoky haze Quote: What's causing the smoky haze
timescolonist.com July 9, 2012 7:42 PM
The smoky haze drifting over much of B.C., blurring the sun, is coming from fires in Siberia, central Russia and, possibly, from other fire-stricken areas in eastern Asia, weather and air quality specialists say.
“It’s mainly due to fires in eastern Siberia,” Environment Canada meteorologist Allan Coldwells said Monday.
“The smoke and dust travels across the Pacific Ocean in an upper-level flow pattern and it’s just the right trajectory to produce some issues in blocking the sun.”
The haziness started during the weekend and probably will continue until a cold front comes in or the fires are brought under control, said Eric Taylor, provincial air-quality meteorologist.
“It appears to be coming from eastern Asia fires, not only in Siberia, but also in central Russia, China and even Vietnam,” he said.
“It has taken six or seven days to get across the Pacific. … It is getting caught up in high-level winds moving across the Pacific at about 8,000 metres.”
The smoke is travelling about 10,000 kilometres.
The B.C. Interior is seeing higher concentrations of smoke than Vancouver Island. Air-quality advisories have been issued in communities such as Williams Lake, Quesnel, Prince George and Smithers, Taylor said.
Anyone with underlying health problems should postpone strenuous exercise outside in areas where there is such an advisory, he said.
On the positive side, the automatic sun filter keeps temperatures slightly lower than if there were a clear sky. The haze is also leading to spectacular sunsets, with the sun disappearing beneath the horizon as a bright red ball.
“A lot of the small particles are brown so they give that reddish-brown hue, and the sunset already has that reddy-orange glow,” Taylor said.
There is no estimate on when the Siberian fires will be brought under control. Metereologists said the earliest a cold front could be expected is late this week.
jlavoie@timescolonist.com
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07-09-2012, 09:56 PM
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Was in Coquitlam on Sunday...
Came outta Wal-mart and looked up and it just felt so unclear lol
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07-09-2012, 10:09 PM
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whadaya know
I've always noticed the the sky gets contrastingly gray from where I've worked looking down towards the south (at least I think I was looking south  ) I thought it was smog the whole time or just a really weird overcast but I was wrong
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07-09-2012, 10:33 PM
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So that's what it is.
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07-09-2012, 10:44 PM
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That's crazy, I noticed that it was really smoky and hazy in Abbotsford today.
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07-09-2012, 10:48 PM
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I knew I wasn't tripping out, the horizon had been hazy lately.... I thought it was the beginning of 2012.
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07-10-2012, 12:57 AM
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noticed during sunset in coquitlam today
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07-10-2012, 01:07 AM
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Noticed yesterday at barnette marine park. I heard its also from some California forest fire?
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07-10-2012, 01:55 AM
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Last night (1-2am) driving from downtown on Kingsway toward metro I kept seeing fuckin lightning. At least 15 flashes without thunder and the sky was reddish-brown too.... could be related?
I was trippin, at first I couldn't even tell where it was coming from so I thought it might be from the PNE lol...(they have those search lights). Then I focused on the sky and sure enough, in less than 30 seconds, it light up again.
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Is that why the moon is brown?
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07-10-2012, 02:55 AM
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Originally Posted by skyxx Is that why the moon is brown? | yeah i saw this last night, but even weirder was you could only see a 1/4 of the moon. looked like someone had eaten the other 3/4. i have never seen it like that in my life
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07-10-2012, 06:09 AM
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Unreal. A friend and I were discussing the "smog" Sunday morning. We were both like "when the hell did this happen?"
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07-10-2012, 08:26 AM
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It's been really bad. The mountains across from me in Coquitlam are all hazy right now, and I've had to actually dig out my inhaler because of it a few times.
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07-10-2012, 08:32 AM
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Originally Posted by classified yeah i saw this last night, but even weirder was you could only see a 1/4 of the moon. looked like someone had eaten the other 3/4. i have never seen it like that in my life | | |
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07-10-2012, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by classified yeah i saw this last night, but even weirder was you could only see a 1/4 of the moon. looked like someone had eaten the other 3/4. i have never seen it like that in my life | you must be new to earth 
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07-10-2012, 10:06 AM
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was at spanish banks yesterday. i remember thinking, "when did we become LA?"
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Originally Posted by classified yeah i saw this last night, but even weirder was you could only see a 1/4 of the moon. looked like someone had eaten the other 3/4. i have never seen it like that in my life | you need to go outside my friend  | |
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Originally Posted by E-ternal-3 Last night (1-2am) driving from downtown on Kingsway toward metro I kept seeing fuckin lightning. At least 15 flashes without thunder and the sky was reddish-brown too.... could be related?
I was trippin, at first I couldn't even tell where it was coming from so I thought it might be from the PNE lol...(they have those search lights). Then I focused on the sky and sure enough, in less than 30 seconds, it light up again. | Saw that on Sun/Mon night around 1-3AM ish as well. It was pretty weird. It was kinda east from Burnaby Mountain.
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07-10-2012, 11:37 AM
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was wondering why it was so smokey in the air... i go down to LA quite a bit and it reminded me of the smog down south LOL.
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07-10-2012, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Verdasco you need to go outside my friend | nono this was nothing ordinary it literally look like a crooked piece of 1 slice of pizza. There was no clouds that i could see either. it was when i was driving to east van from downtown at 1 am on sunday night
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07-10-2012, 06:27 PM
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kinda explains this....... sky was quite smokey the other day
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kinda explains this....... sky was quite smokey the other day | Lucky you're not in the middle of all that.. I wanna see some bluer skies before clouds roll in  | |
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07-10-2012, 07:30 PM
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I live in Burnaby on Lougheed, 20th floor of my apartment building, view of the mountains...
I'm having a hard time telling what's a mountain and what's the sky...
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07-10-2012, 09:17 PM
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and many of us think we are the only nation on this planet.
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07-10-2012, 09:23 PM
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