The smoke in the air this past weekend was very noticeable and easily visible from weather satellites including GOES 16 as shown by the featured map courtesy of College of DuPage. This smoke is from wild fires burning over western Canada. It thankfully mostly remained aloft over Iowa, not greatly impacting surface air quality. The hazy weather though did cut down on surface heating and likely cut a few degrees off of temperatures for the weekend.

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