Monday, February 24, 2025

“I’ve Never Experienced Anything Like This” – Canada Engulfed In Smoke Looks Apocalyptic [Images&Videos]

Deep wafts of wildfire smoke in Canada have been drifting around the region, swallowing whole cities in a thick, yellow haze like something from an apocalypse movie.

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Deep wafts of wildfire smoke in Canada have been drifting around the region, swallowing whole cities in a thick, yellow haze.

You don’t even need much of an imagination to see how these scenes look and feel like something straight out of an apocalypse movie – probably because, to a larger degree than we are willing to admit, these wildfires are very much intensified by the climate crisis.

It is wildfire season in Canada, but this year, the fires have already burned over 9,4 million acres (3,8 million hectares) across the country, forcing 120 000 people from their homes, which is a record high, per Yahoo! News.

Environment Canada (EC) has issued a special air quality statement for most of southern Ontario, stating that there are high levels of air pollution due to smoke from forest wildfires.

“Smoke plumes from forest fires in Quebec and northeastern Ontario may result in deteriorated air quality through most of this week,” the statement reads. “Air quality and visibility due to wildfire smoke can fluctuate over short distances and can vary considerably from hour to hour.”

Folks in Canada have been blown away by the doom clouds, to say the least:

Let’s not forget that somewhere a fire is burning:

Stop going outside, guys:

Environment Canada warned those working/frolicking outdoors:

…those with “lung disease (such as asthma) or heart disease, older adults, children, pregnant people, and people who work outdoors are at higher risk of experiencing health effects caused by wildfire smoke.”

The smoke seems to be bellowing south, freaking out folks in America, too. On Wednesday, schools across the East Coast cancelled outdoor activities, airline traffic slowed and millions of US citizens were urged to stay indoors, Reuters reported:

The U.S. National Weather Service issued air quality alerts for virtually the entire Atlantic seaboard. Health officials from Vermont to South Carolina and as far west as Ohio and Kansas warned residents that spending time outdoors could cause respiratory problems due to high levels of fine particulates in the atmosphere.

Watch this horrifying timelapse of the smoke hitting New York:

Hello, She Who Must Not Be Named, J.K. Rowling, is that you coming for blood?

The poor air quality is expected to persist throughout the week, with a developing storm system anticipated to shift the smoke westward.

[source:yahoo!news]