In a rare instant of Canadian News Lameness, I was watching the CBC and they had the “Chimney Cam”. Smoke came up late at night and it seemed white, then sort of grey. The fact that it was late in the day and that the camera angles were all messed just got them confused.

So I can understand a bit if after severeal (I think 3) puffs of smoke that were rather indeterminate and then later came out black, that newscasters were uncertain.

They could have been less lame about it though.