There’s a plastic smell - almost like an electrical smell outside in rural Illinois today. It’s hard to breathe and I have watery eyes. It’s been hazy for the fourth or fifth day.
The only “fly in the ointment” in consideration of industrial incinerators (there are several in Detroit and Chicago, BTW) is that the Great Lakes area has seen low-pressure zones blow through, experienced the wrap-around phenomenon, since the incineratos were installed.
Yet, not before \this\ time has the odor been noticed nor as wide-spread as this.
Each of these incinerators has an odor clause in their Air Permit.
I pointed to the one in Canada because a Canadian air permit is valid for Canadian air, only.
Maybe Linda can weigh in on odor in her neck of the woods?
Looking at the windy.com site it gives a good wind direction animation. I noticed there was an inversion centered over IL yesterday, still seems to be there today. Maybe a HAARP thing from the white hats to get awareness? Maybe the particulate in the air helps reduce satellite reconnaissance of roundup activities? Maybe a city size spaceship is making it’s own clouds like the movie Independence Day??
Remember, “don’t shoot at them or you could start an interstellar conflict...”
Disclaimer: The reference to alien stuff was satirical-humor based, and should not make the post bannable. But if you’re not grinning by now, it was however, most likely a failure...
Thinking back on that “electrical” smell...
The sharp, slightly burnt yet clean odor you smell after a lightning strike is ozone, generated by the bolt coursing through the air.
It is also the smell you get from an electrical mishap like a breaker releasing or an outlet faulting.
Pretty common odor in utility sub-station yards.
May be significant, may not be...
Another burning factory or oil refinery?