Anthony Farnell

Chief Meteorologist at Global News. Accurate & reliable weather forecasts with a smile.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

We are back into the clean air!!! Yesterday vs today at Riverdale Park in Toronto.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

Heavy rain now falling over some of the fires in northwest Ontario. It won’t be enough to put them out but it will limit their spread and reduce the copious amounts of smoke being produced. Unfortunately also new lightning strikes which could spark new fires. ⚡️ 🔥

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

Huge difference in air quality this morning on the east side of Toronto vs West.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

This is pretty bad.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

The leading edge of smoke cooled air now helping to ignite severe thunderstorms in Pennsylvania.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

Makes sense with the AQI now near 700.

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

The City of Thunder Bay is “temporarily suspending all non-critical outdoor operations and programming” due to air quality.

That includes closing municipal golf courses, marinas, pools, beaches, splash pads.

Public transit and public works will continue.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

In case you are still wondering where all of today’s smoke came from?

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

@VanDamCNN No not really.

[Steve Russell @SteveRussell]

The view of the Northern Ontario forest fire haze engulfing the Toronto Skyline from Humber Bay Park West.
#ForestFire #TorontoHaze #TheBigSmoke #Toronto

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

You can really tell the difference between clouds (white) and smoke (nasty brown) in this satellite animation.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

Thick smoke corridor stretches thousands of kilometres from northwest Ontario to Nova Scotia.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

@mackaytaggart Simply a huge section of our province combusting all at once. Nothing to worry about...

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

I guess the good news is that this thick smoke is blocking out enough sunlight that temperatures are running over 5 degrees cooler than forecast. Hey ECCC, maybe we drop the heat warning so we concentrate on the Orange Air Quality Alert?

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

Headlights on at noon and the most eerie filtered light that I can remember.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

@ThatMetGirl Lucky us. Im actually starting to see some fine ash settling on my car.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

Toronto ranks second in the word for worst air quality this morning.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

Toronto now on top of the major city world rankings for worst air quality. Considering skipping that morning run today.

[Anthony Farnell @AnthonyFarnell]

Can you smell the campfire? Today is smoke day in Toronto.

[Alina Cameron 🇨🇦 💉 🔬 @Alina_Cameron]

I live in Northwestern Ontario. Right now, the Boreal forest is burning.

I'm writing this beneath the dark orange plume from the Quetico wildfires.

These are some of the reports coming out as communities fight to survive:

"No fire crews left for new fires."
"We had no warning."
Families are self-evacuating by private boat across lakes because they didn't receive evacuation information. They're fleeing towering flames with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

This is unacceptable in a province as wealthy as Ontario.

I'm calling out Doug Ford. His government has underfunded Ontario's wildfire management capacity by tens of millions of dollars.

@fordnation you want our Ring of Fire, our water, our forests. You want to store nuclear waste in our bedrock and run an oil pipeline through our watersheds.

But you won't work with northern communities. You make decisions for us without us, and then fail to provide the basic public services we PAY FOR and rely on: wildfire protection, health care, education, safe highways and social services.

Northern Ontario deserves better than this feckless leadership.

#onpoli #onted #70KIsNotOK #cdnpolitics #DontLookAwayOntario #ABC

[Andy Costa @AndyBlizzard87]

Visibility suddenly dropped to a few km with a strong burning wood smell in NW Kingston this evening. #onwx #onstorm