Smoke from Quebec Wildfires 05-31-10

Brisk northwest flow over a day or so previous brought a lot of smoke from out of control wildfires in Quebec, Canada down to New England. During the morning of May 31, the sinking air associated with building high pressure managed to capture this smoke in the valleys below the summit of Mount Washington. This made for a sort of "smoke undercast", much like cloud undercasts (clouds below the summit) that we see on a fairly regular basis. This smoke made for some very interesting optical effects that we tried to capture with this video.

This is the first video that we have made using our new HDV camera which shoots in full 1080 HD, so be sure to view it in that quality if your computer can handle it!

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[MrDONARUMA]

thought my eyes had gone haywire over here in western MA!! can't wait for break so I can summit a few of those beauts!!

Awesome video!

[Tyler380]

Beautiful pictures and music..

[Futurefirefighter99]

@1958johndeere620 i thought it was snowing during school today. lol, from South Portland.

[sm6161]

Was bad in Ipswich Mass 5/31 as well. Nearly impossible to be outside yesterday. Better today with clouds and rain coming.

[1958johndeere620]

Its been pretty smokey on the coast of maine as well. Last night the ash was falling like snow and it was actually hard to breath.

[MasonicEyes]

I live In Ottawa Valley and we didn't even see that much smoke.

[priestofleisure]

nice shots !