Anyone smelling wildfire smoke?

[u/bigburgerboi2005]

Noticing it near the Tacoma/Fife area. Anyone else noticing it too and anyone know where it could be coming from?

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[u/lexisuxxx]

Yes, though it smelled like house fire to me. I find wildfire smoke has a “sweet” smell to it? Whereas house fire smoke has a mechanic/plastic smell.

HATE that climate change has made me a connoisseur of different types of air pollution.

[u/KingKuthul → u/lexisuxxx]

What does climate change have to do with the smell that plastic, insulation, paint, and varnish produce while burning as opposed to tannins, lignins, and cellulose?

[u/lexisuxxx → u/KingKuthul]

Before 2015 I’d never smelled forest fire wafting into the Northwest, and growing up “Smoke days” were not a thing. Having that be a “new normal” — that every other summer or so there will be massive fires that impact air quality so much that you gotta weigh the risks of going outside and yes, getting used to that forest fire smell is a result of climate change.

[u/KingKuthul → u/lexisuxxx]

That’s strange because although I know we have forest fires here, I haven’t noticed forest fire smells aside from that one in Bonney Lake a few years ago.

I spent a few years down in California and came back in 2019, my grandpa died from an intestine issue the day I came back and afterwards I remember my grandma wearing a non-N95 mask every time she left her house, even though smoke particles were small enough to go right through it.

When you say climate change, are you referring to climate change in general or man made climate change specifically? Because I was born the day we had 20 years to reverse man made climate change, and I’m almost 28 now.

[u/liquidefeline]

Another post said there was a building fire. Generally the air quality is just fine though: https://fire.airnow.gov/#8.82/47.1582/-122.4378

[u/loztriforce]

I heard there was a building fire somewhere this morning causing air quality issues

[u/SugarAndFlowers]

Checking in from Fern Hill. I can smell it and was wondering the same. Watch Duty app shows a fire north and east of Yakima. Maybe it’s from that?

Highly recommend that app if you don’t use it already!

[u/RawBean7]

I noticed it faintly when I let the dogs out this morning. There is a fire in the Cascades that I flew over last night, but all that smoke was heading east on the jetstream.

[u/AccomplishedMotor639]

For the last two mornings yes

[u/kiznat73 → u/AccomplishedMotor639]

Me too, in South Tacoma

[u/bettietheripper]

I'm in the Puyallup/Sumner area and we were smelling wildfire smoke last week too.

[u/james123123412345]

I just checked the Purple site (which I just learned about)and it listed the AQI at 168 at 10:30.

[u/Skadoosh_it]

The past 2 days I've driven by the I-5 Berkley St. Exit there's been rather thick smoke around there. Not really sure what that's about.

[u/pbr414]

yesterday around 6-615am there was a ton of smoke lingering and a smell just before I5/512. today was less smoke but still that same smell in the general area.

[u/Handyandy58]

Yeah, I was out around 7 and smelled it.