Thats what the news told us, something about the smoke travelled in higher layers of the atmosphere?
Could be seen as more colorful sunset’s than normal, which i can testify, also the moon looks slightly orange.
I don’t know if other Swedes have observed any?
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Tools, equipment, machines,… work, self-care, “do everything yourself”,… hmmm, but we are really a group of special people. Today I went to pick up cement at a local building material store, and my eye caught this piece of tool, I ask for the price and the shopkeeper tells me that he will give me a good discount, because it has been on sale for a long time,… the manufacturer is one of the best Slovenian manufacturers of forged tools.
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Leave it up to those Canadians to turn the moon orange.
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Where I live we have something similar with dust from the Sahara desert.
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No, not much snakes in Sweden, in this case it was a grass-snake(?) Not venomous, it was more of an accident it slipped down when i loaded with a pitchfork.
Occasionally we se some vipers (translation?) Zig-zag pattern, mild venomous snake.
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I saw a thin haze this morning next to my Volvo 
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I have not noticed but we also had a forest fore about 50km southeast from us and a few smaller ones closer so I haven’t made the connection to Canada specifically.
I woke up some nights ago from a distinct fire smell and after a walkaround on the farm making sure it wasn’t here I realized it was from that forestfire southeast of us, the wind had changed slightly and we got the smoke directly towards us.
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That’s amazing Kamil. We are still at least a month behind.
BUT - we will catch up and overtake. By the time snow arrives we are way ahead of you 
I talked to little Helmer over the phone. He’s trying to wrap his head around that fact 
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Is that because you have longer sun at your latitude JO. I know that people in Alaska can grow a lot because of the duration of the summer sun.
Helmer says " who cares about gardens. Food comes from boobs."
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Tom, what I meant was we can “enjoy” snow and darkness earlier.
But you’re right. The growing season is short and a bright sky 24/7 probably helps some.
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Only those who live depending on the forests can truly fear fire as we do JohanM.
In the USofA there is the great tradition of much personal fireworks celebrating the 4th of July.
These go up into the sky of course and travel. I actually grew up a flatlander, with fields, fences, cows and crops and such.
So I thought fireworks were great fun and enjoyed the ka-Booms that would shake you insides.
On the 4th of July most field crops are still too green to burn easily here.
Then I married into a family with a 15 acres of three generation growing block of trees.
One of four similar family trees blocks adjacent to a low mountains valley Town.
Every year on the 4th we sweat Townies lighting off and burning down out families decades nurtured wealth.
We pray for long wet lingering Springs keeping all green until at least through the 4th of July.
This year Yes for us.
Other years like you in Sweden this year, NO. You can smell the trees so dry they bleed out pitches.
Townies and City folk do lose a few houses ever year due to fireworks. But they all assume -bad luck. The expensive Fire Departments they pay for will respond and it will not be them.
Forest fires are different. Sacrifice areas to save other areas.
And unlike crop fields fires losing one years harvest and hopefully bounce back the next year . . . your forest gone fired is forced prematurely into a post fire salvage harvest, that is always at a $$,$$$ loss. And takes decades and decades to truly recover.
Same-same as drought forced animal herds forced reductions. Market glut forcing prices down. Years to recover annual stabilities.
Trees at least you can years and years drag out delay harvest for better market conditions.
We did.
S.U.
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Yes it is a bit scary. Luckily we don’t have any tradition with fireworks in summer, the closest one is last of april but that is usually not a problem.
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Took a trip on wood today, to a nearby forest road where a rallye competition took place.
The Midnight Sun Rallye, historical/classic competition.
Nice, dusty roads.
Volvo pv.
Many of my favourites: Saab’s, both V4’s and howling two-strokes.
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Ha! Ha! “And how do you get the ass-end of a fwd Saab to hang out?”
“Use zee hand brake!”
S.U.
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According to old sayings/myth, it was the saab-drivers in the -50s that invented the left-foot-braking driving technique, to never let go of the accelerator pedal, which was must needed on them two-strokes
Edit: only time they let the right-pedal up was when shifting gears, with help of the free-wheel.
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I save my left foot for the clutch pedal, in which I haven’t had to use in like 20 years. 
They actually taught the left foot on the brake when I was in drivers ed because reaction times are faster and manual trannies were starting to become obsolete. I think we were one of the last classes that had a manual transmission to even try to drive. They saved that one car from the last fleet upgrade, and it was gone for the next one.
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Apparently, you can make diamonds in a microwave. No videos of the process but the brief description I read was microwave a small seed diamond and surround it with a carbonaceous gas (usually methane) for 10+ weeks. And nitrogen can add defects (inclusions) , and turn the diamond into purple or even black.
Im pretty sure it they altered the wavelength for the microwave but I haven’t found anything beyond resonance frequency yet.
I wonder if you can use woodgas.
Apparently WaveMat is based out of plymouth michigan manufactures the equipment… I wonder if they have a device I can borrow to try… lmao.
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