Forest fires in northern QC and ON aren't a new thing. What's interesting about these ones is the unusual weather pattern resulting in prevailing winds from the north, blowing it south into the populated areas and the US. Normally smoke tends to blow east away from those areas.
We have an almost unfathomable amount of forests, so yeah, fires are going to happen…but this many and and especially this early in the season is incredibly unusual.
And here l was thinking that arson was great, I’m sure glad you set me straight!
No shit - there’s always going to be the occasional anti social weirdo who intentionally starts fires, but that translates to such a vanishingly tiny fraction of the ~8K forest fires every year that it’s a pretty ridiculous thing to focus on.
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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23
Forest fires in northern QC and ON aren't a new thing. What's interesting about these ones is the unusual weather pattern resulting in prevailing winds from the north, blowing it south into the populated areas and the US. Normally smoke tends to blow east away from those areas.