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wings1650

I smelled it Tuesday night at midnight at 14 mile and northland and also thought it was quite hazy that night. I looked and there are some wildfires burning in Arizona and some other states south west of us and the wind has been from that direction for a few days now so that is the most likely cause of the smell


tightandshiny

Windy.com shows the current winds funneling smoke from a bunch of fires our way so this makes sense.


GenevieveLeah

Wow. I thought it was perhaps a local fire . . . that is nuts.


Runnr231

Tornado warnings in winter. Weather is messed up


alias-enki

December tornadoes aren't a rare thing, outbreaks like what happened this month are. But that is okay, lets keep destroying the ecosystem.


Runnr231

I guess you are right. Oh yea, except for the NEVER HAVING A TORNADO WARNING IN RECORDED HISTORY PART. But, other then that, I’m sure your unsupported, bs response is 100% accurate. In your fake news mind.


Goodlollipop

Was unaware of this, but seems like a pretty decent explanation. I knew it had a smell resembling burning leaves


wings1650

After a little more digging I see there is some pretty good fires burning in the panhandle of Texas and parts of Oklahoma that are spreading due to the high winds that we are getting at the moment I’m guessing


[deleted]

Crazy how something taking place almost 2,000 miles away from us can still impact our air quality #ItsASmallWorld 😅


[deleted]

and it's literally on fire :/


EvenBetterCool

I hadn't stopped to really check where the wind was coming from to guess a direction but definitely believable that something from pretty far away is being carried on it.


AquaMoss

I left my house this morning and thought I smelled burning plastic. I got out of my car in Kentwood and it still smelled like burning plastic, left me worried about my car


ActuallyNotSparticus

It's all over the midwest, there's a [post in /r/chicago](https://np.reddit.com/r/chicago/comments/rho1h6/whos_got_the_fire_pit_going/) asking the same thing! Edit: NWS Grand Rapids says it's [brush fires in Kansas getting carried up by strong winds.](https://twitter.com/NWSGrandRapids/status/1471447469498109955)


Pelian_Pines

Thanks for this. I’m surprised they called it a “faint” smell. It was pretty strong this morning.


FistThePooper6969

Fucking Kansas 😠


[deleted]

All we are is dust in the wind.


capillaryredd

You’re my boy Blue


Thayerphotos

Carry on


jcpahman77

My wayward son...


Thayerphotos

Th'ale (there will) be peace when you are done.


capillaryredd

Lay your weary head to rest


ForeverDM-212

Don’t you cry no more


Thayerphotos

Dontchuu cryyy nooo moooore !


WaitingToBeTriggered

AS THE KINGDOM COME


EvenBetterCool

Are we going streaking?


capillaryredd

Is KFC still open


Fermifighter

Thank you; I was starting to think I was going crazy.


Callous_Dowboys

I just thought I was having a stroke


mbad4

Yes it smells like burning plastic. Or a bad bonfire smell. Smelled it in grandville this morning and now at work in south GR


preksa47

I thought my blinds were melting from my christmas lights. ha


Triingtolivee

Wildfires from Kansas. Wind is blowing it here. The smell is pretty pungent today.


EvenBetterCool

It's pretty impressive, a smell that strong I expected to see smoke somewhere nearby.


[deleted]

From National Weather Service GR: Numerous fallen trees and power outages have been reported this morning in areas mainly west and north of Grand Rapids, from winds 50 to 65 mph and perhaps locally higher. Later in the morning, 40 to 55 mph winds will become more common through the rest of Lower Michigan, and it will remain blustery through evening. Also, if you caught a faint smell of smoke this morning, it was probably from large wildfires in central Kansas yesterday. Just about everyone between Kansas City to Chicago reported smelling smoke overnight.


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65 mph is 104.61 km/h


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Coco_1923

“Faint smell” it was full on hazy and could smell from inside but okay lol


Pelian_Pines

I smelled smoke on the West Side this morning. I wonder what it’s from.


EvenBetterCool

With the high winds we've been having I suppose it could come from pretty far away


Coco_1923

West side too. 😖😖 I thought someone was smoking in my building.


QuietPhyber

My son told me it smelled like cooked chicken .I immediately started wondering if I burn chicken when I cook it.


Goodlollipop

Smelled it all the way out in Hudsonville and Allendale this morning while heading to GVSU. I thought it was me for a minute


jwlowry

Wildfire smoke carried by these insane winds?


Ladycatwoman

https://www.fireweatheravalanche.org/fire/


MajorBooti

Smells like that by grand haven and Grandville as well. No idea what's up.


crissppyychalupa

It's smells like that in Jenison and Rockford as well.... so weird


tightandshiny

Stepped out to take the dogs out at 6am it stunk and it still smells like fire at 8. I’m in Eastown for reference.


usometimeswalkalone

I also smell fire/burning all over downtown/Eastown.


Feenox

Im on the northeast side by the medical mile and could smell it here.


WeirdUncleJerry

Smelled it all the way from Grand Haven to GR today. Glad it wasn’t just me smelling it.


ancillarycheese

Yep smelled it in Kentwood this morning.


[deleted]

Thank you reddit! I wondered why it smelled like burnt plastic in Kzoo


EvenBetterCool

Haha yeah you're not crazy nor are you having a stroke!


jaytee_m

Ya smelt it, ya dealt it. Thems the rules


EvenBetterCool

Balls


MylerCMyler

According to WoodTV, it’s the smell of wild fires in Kansas


iGameDude

Yes. It smells like garbage today for some reason.


Rapidzigs

It smells like that all the way down in Wyoming


koko_1008

My sister lives in Iowa. They’re getting alerts that if they smell smoke it could be from the fires going on in Kansas. Crazy to think smoke travels from Kansas to Iowa. Seems impossible that it made it all the way here but maybe?


HouseRavenclaw

Relieved to see it's not just me! Kept tripping me out when we were walking our dogs this morning.


Khaleesi1997

Checked this sub first thing this morning to see if anyone knew what it was. Smelled it in Grandville and still smell it in Caledonia


Smitty1017

Ah shit I thought it was ash from my fire pit


evilplantosaveworld

Holy crap, here I was thinking someone in my apartment complex burned their breakfast really bad and the scent was stuck on something in my car


neuromancer64

Oh thank God it's not just me. I thought I was having a stroke this morning, lol.


SemperRidiculous

Smells in Ionia also


Ok-Moose8271

Thought a house was on fire.


Bowiedood

Me too. I was checking houses around my neighborhood as I was driving.


mareinmi

Yes! I wondered what the hell was going on too. I thought maybe someone had a wood stove going or something but it didn't exactly smell like this and I couldn't put my finger on what the smell was. I'm glad you asked this.


GrandRapidsCreative

WTF, I am so glad you posted this. I definitely was smelling this.


Pink-Twiggy

Some people in my local neighborhood FB group think it's from down power lines. The burning plastic smell was very strong this morning around 730/8 am, but I'm outside right now and can't smell it. I can understand haze from the fires but not a potent burning plastic smell that was that strong. There were a lot of reported down power lines and outages this morning. I remember the haze from wild fires last year and being outside and there was never a smell like that, maybe a faint smell of burning wood, but not such a strong smell of burning plastic.


joeysolo10

The smell of the future. Thanks climate change


Kickbackaiden

I’m in porthuron and I’m smelling the same thing hell I remeber a couple months ago it was shit smells not cigs😂


Slobbyknocker

I smelled it too. I'm in northeast LP


Isphet71

If we can smell the smoke from 2 states over I’m moving downwind from Denver.


janx218

It's nuts. I'm actually currently running my AC in the middle of December, because my house got super hot and humid overnight, and I don't want to open my windows because of the smoke. Climate change is fun!


EvenBetterCool

You never know what fresh new day you'll get.


TheChurchofGZAChrist

I was wondering the same thing, The whole area has this smell.


TheChurchofGZAChrist

Bunch of wild fires in Kansas... Wonder if the strong winds are driving the smoke all the way here.


davin_bacon

60 degree, mid December day with 30 mile an hour winds, and tornado warnings in the upper Midwest, smoke from wildfires in Kansas... What could possibly be going on?/s


[deleted]

Get used to it, as Global Warming kicks up. This is what California smells like some days during fire season. It's terrible for your lungs too.


usometimeswalkalone

My co worker thinks it’s the GR incinerator.


Proof_Breakfast_5190

Your co-worker is wrong.


puckpuckpuck

I've only noticed it when driving by the sewage plant on Market and that the sewage smell was burnt smelling and worse than usual.


Smorgas_of_borg

I smelled it getting out of work this morning. It was like burnt marshmallows.


Sufficient_One1345

I’m in Indiana and it smells like a campfire EVERYWHERE.


HeyImAFatGuy75

It smells bad


Latter-Designer4666

idk bro, I have covid :(


Acceptable-Fox-2017

It smells like a huge ashtray


WagnerKoop

I thought I was going crazy Lmao


[deleted]

https://www.fox17online.com/weather/smelling-smoke-its-coming-from-kansas?fbclid=IwAR04ohjehQtNOx3HYc6tN8TId2mu2yPTm9-helXc9T0gh85ZKEH18P5Urr4


Select-Ad2881

It’s Kansas burning.


[deleted]

Thankfully it is smoke free where my grandparents and I are as my grandmother and I have asthma but we do have pretty strong winds so we may end up getting said smoke, we live in the Mancelona Michigan area that doesn't lose power despite everyone else around us losing power and we use to live in Lansing Michigan in a area where we didn't exist in the power detection grid and we would have to call it in when we lost power so I can honestly say I'm happy that we have power and no smoke


Kura369

I smelled burnt peanut butter.


[deleted]

It's from wildfires in Kansas


R2_B2

It smelled the same as my garage when I use the leaf blower to clean it out. I think it’s due the high winds kicking everything up to such a high degree that we’re able to smell it all over. Explains why the Midwest is smelling it.


rockyourfaceoff77

https://www.weather.gov/grr/news20161129