{"id":9372,"date":"2025-07-30T21:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=9372"},"modified":"2025-07-30T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:08:15","slug":"smoke-gets-in-your-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Smoke Gets In Your Eyes&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.gov\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20250726ff\/20250730-1556UTC-US-658.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Weather in the contiguous 50 states: July 30, 2025 15:56 UTC \/ 10:56 a.m. CDT Wednesday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like the song says: &#8220;smoke gets in your eyes&#8221;, nose and throat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s not really funny. But at least we can get a heads-up on how bad the smoke is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oddly enough, despite its name this state&#8217;s &#8220;Pollution Control Agency&#8221; can&#8217;t actually control the smoke that&#8217;s been drifting past us. And that&#8217;s another topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Minnesota Pollution Control Agency\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pca.state.mn.us\/air-water-land-climate\/current-air-quality-conditions\">Current air quality conditions<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnr.state.mn.us\/climate\/journal\/smoke-event-june-14-2023.html\">Smoke Event of June 14, 2023<\/a>&#8221; <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minnesota Public Radio News (Minnesota Weather News)\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2025\/07\/30\/long-duration-heavy-wildfire-smoke-event-for-minnesota\">Worst air quality in the world for parts of Minnesota this week<\/a>&#8221; , Paul Huttner (July 30, 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2025\/06\/03\/record-smoke-front-slams-the-twin-cities-and-much-of-minnesota\">Record smoke front slams the Twin Cities and much of Minnesota<\/a>&#8221; , Paul Huttner (June 3, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Here in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, we&#8217;ve got an Air Quality Alert that&#8217;s running until 5:00 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pca.state.mn.us\/air-water-land-climate\/current-air-quality-conditions\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/brendans-island.com\/blogsource\/20250726ff\/20250730-AirQualityMN-Map-%20330pmCDT-329.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Minnesota Pollution Control Agency map: Current air quality conditions'. (July 30, 2025, 3:30 p.m. CDT)\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Air quality in Minnesota and surrounding states\/provinces. (July 30, 2025, 3:30 p.m.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This time around, I can&#8217;t actually see the stuff that shouldn&#8217;t be in our air.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I can feel it. And I suspect the smoke that&#8217;s been drifting through is at least partly behind how I&#8217;ve been feeling: tired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Granted, I&#8217;m in my mid-70s. But this &#8220;tired&#8221; above and beyond the usual &#8216;not a 40-year-old kid any more&#8217; thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the &#8216;up&#8217; side, it&#8217;s nowhere near as bad as a few weekends back. Several weekends back? Anyway, then the haze here in Sauk Centre was brown. That&#8217;s unusual, and not good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe a cup of coffee will help. Or two. Either way, I&#8217;m getting my feet up for a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Right. One more thing: I&#8217;ve talked this summer&#8217;s atmospheric ambiance before:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/another-smoky-day-in-central-minnesota\/\">Another Smoky Day in Central Minnesota<\/a>&#8221; <br \/>(June 3, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the song says: &#8220;smoke gets in your eyes&#8221;, nose and throat. It&#8217;s not really funny. But at least we can get a heads-up on how bad the smoke is. Oddly enough, despite its name this state&#8217;s &#8220;Pollution Control Agency&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/smoke-gets-in-your-eyes\/\">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":"Another smoky day in Minnesota: Very briefly: my experience, links to current data and recent news, thumbnails of weather and air quality maps.","jetpack_seo_html_title":"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes...","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":[50,8,194,132],"class_list":["post-9372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discursive-detours","category-journal","tag-environmental-issues","tag-health","tag-minnesota","tag-weather"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Dwtw-2ra","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372","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=9372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9373,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9372\/revisions\/9373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}