A town in Saskatchewan was 20 Celsius today, one off the record for this day for all of Canada.

[Swede]

Temperatures are usually in the -20 C range. Sorry folks, you're gonna get a whole lot of smoke from Canada this summer.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. WTF? That's 68F? Have no idea how this is true, given the polar maps dropping on the US via Canada and Saskatchewan.

[Swede]

2. It's true. Couple more days and the snow is gone.

Serious drought will happen come spring. Then the fires start.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. I am within a minute of the 45th Parallel

In Central Maine. Been an extended below 32 degree weather for 10 days or so.

[Swede]

4. Maine is 2800 km from here in western Saskatchewan.

About a million square miles of forest just north of me, waiting to burn.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Start cutting a fire boundry and remove all of the ground fuel you can.

I have 50 acres in Maine and I think I need to drop some pines that are too close to the house.

[Swede]

6. I wasn't kidding, there is a million square miles of forest just north of me.

Sparsely populated, no roads to speak of. Where are you gonna get these millions of workers up there, and how you gonna get them up there?

[OAITW r.2.0]

7. My Point is, we got a shitload of trees and dropped fuel to create a conflageration in my neck of the woods.