May you live in interesting times.
Tuesday’s smoke front produced the highest air quality index reading for wildfire smoke on record in the state of Minnesota.
I checked with meteorologists at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and they told me Tuesday that the air quality index in Grand Portage at the state’s northeastern tip hit 800 at 2 a.m. Tuesday. That breaks the previous smoke-induced record of 692 in St. Cloud on July 29, 2021…