It’s likely you'll still be noticing the smokey smell until we get a new dominant system in our area.
The cause of this smoke in our area was actually the rain that we saw Friday night. Or at least both of these came from the same system, a cold front that is currently still making its way toward the Atlantic.
Now cold fronts signify a colder air mass, and the air mass this frontal system brought was from Canada, meaning the smoke from wildfires up there was drug our direction.
Now smoke in the air, not perfect for many reasons, but one of the big ones that you could notice in the summer is it traps a lot of allergens closer to the surface.
We haven’t seen any other frontal systems pass through our area, so how are we going to be seeing summerlike 80s today?
Well, it’s all thanks to what type of pressure system that cold front brought into our area.
Let’s take a look at the surface map again and we see the cold front that brought this air mass into our area, but behind it, and a little closer to Michiana, is the high-pressure system that is currently affecting us.
High pressure systems are associated with sunny skies and pleasant weather, especially if you are on the north or western side of it. This is due to the clockwise flow that air from the high pressure sends into our area.
So again, this smokey air mass is linked to a high-pressure system, which was cooling us down over the weekend, but is now funneling some hot conditions toward Michiana.