Anyone who was outside on Saturday likely wouldn't have been outside for long, for a reason that was pretty apparent the moment anyone stepped outside.

Smoke settled across the Southeast, with visibility reduced so dramatically that people couldn't see down some roads.

While some rumors may have been abounding of a building or grass fire, the true cause of the smoke was a fire much further away.

In fact, that smoke originally came from a fire burning near Hudson Bay, which is almost 400 kilometers north of Kenossee Lake.

Environment Canada Meteorologist Natalie Hasel says that smoke is mainly being created in Northern Saskatchewan.

"We had some warm and rather dry conditions, and as a result, a number of wildland fires have either flared up again or new ones have started," said Hasel, "In particular, for Saskatchewan, the area around Hudson Bay looks particularly active at the moment. We also have another uncontained fire just to the north of Prince Albert and a few other areas not just in Saskatchewan but also in the United States."

That smoke that's being created then lingers in the air and is being pushed to the southeast by a system that has its roots in Southwest Saskatchewan.

"We can see a high-pressure area centered around Southwestern Saskatchewan, meaning that we had flow in a clockwise fashion, so areas in Southeastern Saskatchewan have that flow from the north," said Hasel, "This persisted through the day, allowing the winds and air from where the fire was to move to the Southeastern corner of the province."

Hasel says that while we are looking at cleaner air right now, there's also a good chance the air clouds up again.

"Hopefully winds will remain out of the South and the Southeast for some time, which will lead to reasonably good air quality," said Hasel, "We do have some fire in the states where the smoke could reach there in a couple of days, but it doesn't look like those concentrations will be particularly bad. You could also see the same smoke as from Saturday come back to you."

According to Hasel, we're likely to see smoke again this Wednesday, though the chances of it being as thick as the cloud that approached on Saturday aren't very high.