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I've seen at least 3 days so far where the smoke is pretty bad,
lasting several hours and a few other days with bad smoke lasting about an hour.
So so far, maybe 6-8 times I've felt uncomfortable levels of smoke in the air since August 2011.
Funny but there wasn't really any smoke before then, that wasn't from a campfire.
Today I could stare at the sun on a sunny day at 4pm; it was a soft orange from smoke.
I chalk this up to a dislike about my local area,
not bad enough to cause me to move away though since most days are smoke-free.
I wonder if Perth gets smokey as often as Bunbury/Australind.
How about any other major cities Down Under?
The worst day I've seen it is when the sky is so smokey,
it's as if you are 1-2 metres/ 3-6 feet away from a campfire...
only you don't see any flames; massive fire but a long way away.
Today, it was as bad as being about 4-6m/15-20 feet from a campfire,
but again no flames that I could see, and you can't get away from this level of smoke,
besides going indoors or turning on my car's A/C with the re-circulate option.
Not often in the big smoke (ha)
Unless there's been a bushfire, or some heavy backburning going on, but I don't think that would be done this late in the year....
Not often in the big smoke (ha)
Unless there's been a bushfire, or some heavy backburning going on, but I don't think that would be done this late in the year....
My, my, my how quickly you forget. Is it because it's a Monday and your brain is still in weekend mode? Either that or you don't get out much when you're at work!
My, my, my how quickly you forget. Is it because it's a Monday and your brain is still in weekend mode? Either that or you don't get out much when you're at work!
I would guess it's down to burning off (controlled fires) somewhere because I've never seen smog in Australia. Not sure how often it would happen but it would be uncommon and the effect would depend on the weather at the time. If there's no breeze the smoke could hang around.
Down here, smoke is bad, sometimes very bad, BECAUSE of wind. No one does big burn-offs near town, but one of the worst I remember was from 25+km/h sustained easterlies; about 5 km east is mostly farmland, 10km out it's all rural.
And, all of the above plus..... my memory is pretty ordinary.
If you are talking of merely a "faint, tangy, smokey smell" in the air, I've probably smelt that at least 20 days so far.
No I'm talking about smoke heavy enough, you feel like you ARE in a campground after dark where people are roasting marshmallows or hotdogs... only you can't see any flames.
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