What in the hell is in the air in Iowa that is burning my nose and throat?

[rurallib]

I have been in offices and stores today and it is everywhere.
Can't even breath in this effing state anymore.

[Fullduplexxx]

1. Canadian fired ?

[viva la]

2. Canadian fires are still quite bad.

Still a haze in Chicago.

[rurallib]

6. nope - weather.gov shows the are clear, air now.gov has our measurements below 50

And to me my snoot doesn't discern smoke -

Must be some chemicals getting sprayed all over the place. It stinks and it burns

[viva la]

17. This is the month in my county they're doing lots of mosquito spraying

And the pollen is still high where I am.

I'm staying in the airconditioning!

[rurallib]

20. Do they still spray for mosquitos?

I remember that when I was a kid and these big trucks would go by spraying a thick cover of something. We would all just breath it in and go on playing.

I have been in AC most of the day and it inside stores and offices and my house.

I am thinking insecticide from crop dusting. I have seen some planes and helicopters flying over fields last week. Good lord I haven't seen hardly a bug this summer. I think the chemicals have killed them all.

[3Hotdogs]

23. Yiz were candyasses. Just breathe it in? Shiiiit. When we was kids, we would get on our bikes

and ride behind the trucks, "Spray me. Spray us." and the guy would oblige.

DDT developes strong muscles in kids.

[Chi67]

3. Well

Probably smoke from Canadian wildfires.

[2naSalit]

4. Fertilizer.

[rurallib]

8. Isn't it a bit late for fertilizer?

But that seems to be what it smells like.

[2naSalit]

15. Maybe it's insecticide.

Watch for crop dusting activities.

[Irish_Dem]

5. I just talked to a cousin in Wisconsin yesterday.

The Canadian fire smoke is bad there this week.
Yesterday it was bad.

[GenXer47]

7. it's 75 years of gasoline

We're addicted and we gotta quit.

[rurallib]

10. This comes and goes and seems to be periodic like farm chemicals

Gas would be every day.

[Beachnutt]

9. Either pig manure or insecticide

Big hog farms and lotsa farmland.

[rurallib]

11. Pig shit smells like pig shit and that ain't it

My first guess was insecticide. The planes were out spraying last week. It is just for the past two day it has been choking. Today I moved around Eastern Iowa and it is just everywhere. In offices and stores.

I have had a smokers hack since the fire smoke first hit us in May. This is really choking today.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. If TFG is visiting, then you're smelling sulfur.

[rurallib]

14. Any of them, Trump's is just stronger

[Mawspam2]

13. Chuck Grassley's used Depends.

[IA8IT]

16. mendacity?

chaps my ass. my nose is ok here in SW IA

[rurallib]

18. It is caucus lead up time

[IA8IT]

19. Rob Sand in the area yesterday and he's a breath of fresh air.

[rurallib]

21. He was in my area last week but it was 100 that day.

[Cheezoholic]

22. Crop dusting season just started here in IN if youre rural n/t