Smoke and Haze from GA Wildfire

[HarlequinBoy]

I was really shocked on Wednesday when people began mentioning that haze from the wildfires in Georgia were making it all the way up into NE MS and middle TN.. I didn't notice it around the Memphis area until Thursday, and it's not constant but every few hours or so the visibility will drop to a few miles. It's pretty weird, IMO, to think that the smoke from down there is making it all the way up here.

[TampaSteve]

Join the club...we here in the Tampa Bay area had to deal with it a couple of weeks ago...nasty...

[JonathanBelles]

What TampaSteve said lol...I heard the smoke was making its way to Pittsburg.

[Opal storm]

Pretty amazing that it can travel that far.

[Extremeweatherguy]

I wonder if all this smoke being released day after day has any effect on the global atmosphere? Could it possibly impact the short-term climate? I know that sometimes the big volcanoes can do this, but will all these constant fires have a similar effect? That would be something interesting to hear about.

[Category 5]

Not suprised. Back in 2002 I think we had smoke drift in from a fire in quebec or onterio

[baygirl_1]

We visited my sister in Auburn (AL) over the weekend and the smoke was quite thick Saturday morning. The smoky smell was so strong, we thought there was a fire very close-by. It turns out it was the smoke from the GA/FL wildfires. Fortunately, the smoke and smell abated by the afternoon so we could have our family get-together on the back porch. As we drove home on I-65 yesterday afternoon, the smoke was with us most of the way South. I guess it finally cleared around the Escambia County/Baldwin County line. We really need a good rain to clear this stuff out.