Peter Forister 🍁🍂🍁

Autumn so far in Appalachia 🍂🍂 📍Shenandoah National Park and Catskill Mountain Park, October 2025

@TravisKoshko Storm!

"Drier" air aloft is starting to scour out the wildfire smoke, but also fueling showers and storms in the area. Slight risk for storm continues into this evening with damaging straight-line winds the main storm threat. Stay weather aware!

@CORONAGAMBIT Oops forgot to change my phone app watermark

@forecaster25 Copyright 2025?

Richmond, VA this evening with a thick blanket of smoke. One of the worst air quality days in the city’s modern history.

@skylark1984 Yeah

@forecaster25 Is this from the Canadian fires?

Near-surface smoke in Charlottesville starting to turn the sky orange. PM2.5 >300 is a "Health emergency" - multiple stations are higher today.

@FinchFlyer I'm actually in Pantops now! Moved earlier this year

@forecaster25 May I ask where these photos were taken? I know you're usually on the north side of town. It's equally bad on Pantops and even downtown.

@TimBuckleyWX Yeah

@forecaster25 Charlottesville?

Absolutely disgusting air has arrived in Virginia

@rbalephoto Oof

Current view in West Michigan

@AustinR_WX Yep a couple!

@forecaster25 I spy a sunspot 👀

Canadian wildfire smoke overhead. The sun has a strange hue filtering through the dirty air. ☀️🌫️ Shot over Charlottesville last evening.

Sentinel-2 satellite view of the ferocious wildfires burning in Ontario, Canada. Images captured 7/14 midday.

@wxrjm @wx_virginia HRRR looks similar

@forecaster25 @wx_virginia Not great! RRFS for Friday. Probably a little overdone, but certainly will be reduced air quality.

Looks like Friday could be quite smoky in Virginia. May be similar to what we saw in 2023.

@MeganWiseWX 🫡

Did you see this early this morning? SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch seen from Lake Anna in Louisa county. Thanks for sharing, Roy Hall!

@LuminancePhotos Skyline drive

@forecaster25 Where'd you get that view of, I'm assuming, rocket launch?

This morning in Virginia

@VORTEXJeff Ayyyy welcome to my neck of the woods!

Blackwater Falls State Park, West Virginia

@agrahms @WeatherMatrix Probably stays in PA/NY mostly

@forecaster25 @WeatherMatrix In VA?

IMPORTANT thing to note about the smoke that will cover NYC & mid-Atlantic this afternoon. It's not at the surface. Most of the scary maps you see show smoke at ALL levels of the atmosphere at once (VI), but the map on the right shows that the smoke is not at the surface very far away from the fires in Canada, so you won't have to worry about poor Air Quality or smelly smoke.