Today is a bad air day over metro Orlando and central Florida in general.

It started yesterday. I first noticed it in the afternoon when I looked up overhead and thought the atmospheric color was a bit off. I checked the Apple weather app, and for once it was shockingly accurate; the entire central Florida area was under an air quality alert for sensitive groups, which I think includes me now that I’m nearly 70.

I dug a little deeper and discovered that Canadian wildfire smoke was being diverted south along the Atlantic seaboard and over central Florida. According to various news outlets, the smoke and haze are supposed to clear out by Wednesday, tomorrow.

If the people of Florida can’t accept this as another blunt sign that we’re in the middle of an environmental catastrophe, I don’t know what will. The Canadian wildfire smoke  affecting weather and health down in Florida is, as the Baptists like to say, a come-to-Jesus moment.