I just complimented Don'l in another thread by describing him as undeviatingly inaccurate.

I am in Southcentral Alaska. While it is possible that stuff like pollution and smoke can blow over, we usually get weather from West and West sou-west. I have heard of the hot weather in Siberia and the fears that the once entombed carbon dioxide is getting liberated all too soon, it is more likely that pollution drifts to the North Slope. Since I'm well over 500 miles from either Siberia or the North Slope, I don't see any of this in our unusually wonderful, sunny local weather. I've gone dog walking more in the Covid era than ever in my life. Since I don't have a dog, this is even more wondrous.