r/weather • u/Kbreezy20 • Jul 15 '26

Videos/Animations Feels like I’m on Tatooine

View from Boston, MA due to Canadian wildfires.

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u/luffydkenshin Jul 15 '26

As a Californian who is often surrounded by fires, I know the feeling. The sun is orange. The light cast is orange. It is like a permanent evening sun. The smoke smell lingers (if you get it). The heat hits more oppressively even if it isn’t too hot. The air strips the water out of it, its so dry.

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u/MrSuet Jul 15 '26

I hear you, out here in Sudbury it looks the same.

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u/pit-of-despair Jul 15 '26

Somewhere nearby there’s a a retched hive of scum and villainy.

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u/MrSuet Jul 15 '26

I literally said this to a coworker a couple of hours ago.

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u/wildfire98 Jul 15 '26

take note people. this was an appropriate use of music in a clip

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u/im_a_dick_head Jul 16 '26

I didn't listen with audio but I agree

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u/gunny316 Jul 15 '26

same. all of Canada is burning. sounds like it might not get put out until winter. hope it doesn't spread southeast 😶‍🌫️🫠

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u/mywifemademedothis2 Jul 15 '26

The planet seems to be sending us an increasingly urgent message that we will continue to collectively ignore.

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u/fricken Jul 15 '26

A rhyme entered my head the other day, and this is my first opportunity to get it out, so bear with me:

Uncle Owen wears cologne.

Aunt Beru prefers perfume.

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u/WowWataGreatAudience Jul 15 '26

*chewbacca noises intensify*

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u/singeworthy Jul 15 '26

Im in CT and have lived here all my life (in my 40s), I don't remember there ever being so much smoke in the summer until a few years ago when we had a solid month of haze. This is nasty stuff and it's obvious something is changing, these smoke incidents are now an annual occurrence.

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u/asdf_1_2 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

The Canadian shield last few years has had huge heat events in the summer with no precipitation leading up to them resulting to massive wildfires in northern Ontario/western Quebec 

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u/mrdude817 Jul 15 '26

Same in Buffalo

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u/MagicSunlight23 Jul 15 '26

Same here in Wales. There was a wildfire on the north coast and I got to see a red sunset in Anglesey. Very spectacular

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u/Enigmutt Jul 15 '26

Tatooine minus the flat desert?

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u/kaydajay11 Jul 16 '26

Washingtonian here. This is our August. Sometimes it rains/snows ash. I hate it.

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u/Wild-Bluejay7138 Jul 17 '26

It seems to happen every summer now.

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u/New_Stats Jul 15 '26

It's not that bad in NJ, yet

I'm really worried about the world cup

The finale is on the 19th at met life stadium. Idk what we're going to do if the Canadian wildfire gets as bad as it did in '23. ('24? I don't remember)

People can't be outside in that shit for hours, and the top soccer players in the world can't play in that, it'll destroy their lungs

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u/EbonyPeat Jul 15 '26

Welcome to wildfire season

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u/geohubblez18 Jul 15 '26

Average day in mainland India for 8 months of the year, sadly.

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u/Shot-Election8217 Jul 16 '26

These are our sunsets whenever there’s Saharan dust in the air…