If nothing else, this artcile has an amazing graph showing how much worse this year is.

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      So we’re already close to double the record, and it only just now reaching the time of year where fires normally start.

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        This ain’t good. Lets see how it’s going to effect peoples health. Im thinking of making up a air sensor for my balcony with an arduino.

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        Well, we’re just reaching the point where fires are most common. The graph also starts in May and the middle is July.

        It’s definitely worse than it’s ever been… but it’s not exactly out of season, either.

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      That graph is bonkers. It’s not like we haven’t hard barn burners of a fire season before this year, so near doubling the previous high by June is staggering.

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    Freaking crazy, next year might be better…nothing left to burn.

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    Another expert I saw mentioned that their predictions of the worst-case stuff for the future is that it will be twice as bad compared to now. A lot of lives and houses, infrastructure, etc. can be lost when live in a reality where our fire fighting has to pick and choose which cities and livelihoods we save.

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      I’m an optimist. Just like Winnipeg figured out how to manage floods, I think we’ll figure out how to manage even the worst case scenario forest fires. And some of that will be simply (and sometimes annoying) things like mandating firebreaks in rings around populated centres. So we’ll look like targets to the space aliens, err, satellites.

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    Is this likely to be a particularly bad year because of El Nino weather patterns? (I think its an El Nino year?)

    Either way, shockingly bad so far. Anecdotally I work for a company with employees in several US states and people have been impacted all over the north/east. Kids home from school due to bad air, allergies, headaches if they go outside too much, etc.

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    Anyone who hasn’t seen it should definitely watch Only the Brave (2017). It’s a really impactful movie.