{"id":9205,"date":"2025-06-03T19:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=9205"},"modified":"2025-06-03T19:23:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T19:23:25","slug":"another-smoky-day-in-central-minnesota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/another-smoky-day-in-central-minnesota\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Smoky Day in Central Minnesota"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@46.2970505,-93.2727509,2397089m\/data=!3m1!1e3!5m1!1e9\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20250225ff\/20250603-GoogleMapsAirQuality-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Google Maps: air quality over central North America. (June 3, 2025 1:35 p.m. (18:35 \/ 6:35 p.m. UTC))\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Air quality over central North America: Monday afternoon, June 3, 2025; via Google Maps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mentioned &#8220;wildfires in Minnesota\u2019s Arrowhead region&#8221; in last week&#8217;s post. They&#8217;re still going, and still not national news:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/local-news\/wildfire-near-boundary-waters-remains-uncontained-jenkins-wildfire-holding-steady-near-containment\/\">Wildfire near Boundary Waters remains uncontained, Jenkins wildfire holding steady near containment<\/a>&#8221; <br>Ashley Halbach, KSTP (June 2, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>My state&#8217;s air quality did make headlines, though; as a sort of footnote to Canadian wildfires:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/minnesota-weather-air-quality-alert-continues-june-3-2025\/\">Air quality alert continues in Minnesota, but improvements in sight<\/a>&#8221; <br>Lisa Meadows, Joseph Dames; WCCO Staff; CBS Minnesota (June 3, 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/weather\/wildfires\/canadian-wildfires-trigger-air-quality-alerts-us-rcna210397\">Air quality alert continues in Minnesota, but improvements in sight<\/a>&#8221; <br>Mirna Alsharif NBC News (June 2, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Neither has the up-front-and-center prominence in my news feed that the annual Los Angeles fires get: and that&#8217;s another topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news, part of it, for me is that today&#8217;s smoke situation isn&#8217;t nearly as bad as the weekend&#8217;s. Getting to Mass Sunday morning, the sun had a distinct red hue: cheery or ominous, depending on the observer&#8217;s mood. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20241028ff\/202501091036-1634-329.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Weather.gov's current conditions map for United States. (January 9, 2025, 16:34 UTC)\" align=\"right\"><\/a>That&#8217;s about all I had to say. I&#8217;ve talked about this sort of thing before:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/snow-yes-storm-no-another-thursday-in-minnesota\/\">Snow, Yes; Storm, No: Another Thursday in Minnesota<\/a>&#8221; <br>(January 9, 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/minnesota-is-not-burning\/\">Minnesota is Not Burning<\/a>&#8221; <br>(September 30, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/8016-2\/\">Frost, Smoke: Another Spring Day in Minnesota<\/a>&#8221; <br>(May 13, 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/a-house-in-yellowknife-northwest-territories-canada\/\">A House in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada<\/a>&#8221; <br>(August 20, 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/central-minnesota-unhealthyair-quality-and-my-plans-for-today\/\">Central Minnesota &#8216;Unhealthy&#8217; Air Quality and My Plans For Today<\/a>&#8221; <br>(June 28, 2023)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned &#8220;wildfires in Minnesota\u2019s Arrowhead region&#8221; in last week&#8217;s post. They&#8217;re still going, and still not national news: My state&#8217;s air quality did make headlines, though; as a sort of footnote to Canadian wildfires: Neither has the up-front-and-center prominence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/another-smoky-day-in-central-minnesota\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"A screenshot of a Google Maps air quality display for central North America (June 3, 2025), and a glance wildfire headlines in Minnesota.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Another Smoky Day in Central Minnesota","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,192],"tags":[16,194,132],"class_list":["post-9205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","category-journal","tag-america","tag-minnesota","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-2ot","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9207,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions\/9207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}