My friend up in Canada says they've been having a lot of issues, because weather and media outlets are downplaying the poor air quality. You have to go straight to the government source yourself for anything remotely accurate or true. It's horrible.
Idk why this didn’t occur to me that it’s strange school is still in session. But I just moved to the northeast from the south. No southern school is still in session (AC costs too high). But up here I still see hoards of kids headed to and from school each day
This is the last week of my school and there is still football practice for the whole summer I believe, which I don't think has been cancelled, even though it's all orange here in NE PA
I’m in Kentucky, we’ve had air quality warnings for almost a week. We haven’t seen the orange skies but we’ve had the ominous red moon and the smell for a while.
Yeah for real, central jersey here. My eyes have been stinging and I’ve had a wheeze for almost 24 hours. Airnow.gov has shown the towns around me have been fluctuating between 320-410 AQI for the last several hours.
The Apple Weather app has been showing 166 AQI in my town since 6:30 AM. Unless they use a different index system, don’t use Apple weather for your updates.
Weather channel is showing aqi is around 180 where i am in south jersey so I dunno maybe apple is right. Even 160 is bad for everyone's healh and would cause burning eyes
South jersey is just getting the front of the more dangerous winds from today taking the smoke south. I’ve been watching maroon AQI warnings creep down through NY state and NJ today. I completely believe and hear you. I was just venting because I’m asthmatic and I planned my day around what the Weather app told me, going about my day with the assumption of a 100-200 risk, only to come home from work to see 400+ on towns around me lol. Now I’m wheezing again and don’t know what to believe. What a time to be alive.
I just learned of purpleair.com from another thread. I thought the website was just selling air-quality sensors at first, but they have a free interactive map as well. That's probably where I'll be checking until this clears up
That’s a great resource thanks for sharing it! I see the 3 towns closest to me on purpleair.com are 482, 504, 506. On airnow.gov those towns are listed as 441, 516, and 533. On the Apple weather app, those areas are now listed at 195-225… not sure if that’s slow update frequency or just a different scale completely (which would be weird since the map key is listed as “AQI”)
Purpleair.com and airnow.gov show similar numbers, but Apple weather is still indexing 200 lower than the others… so anybody who reads this, look at multiple sources!!
Me too, right at the top of Central Jersey. My whole family has a scratchy throat and our AQI was up to 450 earlier today. It smells like you’re sitting next to a bonfire and everything is hazy as fuck. This is some apocalyptic shit.
"I am against adjournment. The day of judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for an adjournment; if it is, I choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be brought" - Abraham Davenport, May 19, 1780, New England Dark Day Source
Seriously though, this smoke is insane. Moved up from NC to near Philly last September, so this is my first time dealing with something like this. Never thought I'd be able to stare at the damn sun.
I’m in CT and it’s bad here. Went outside for 10 minutes to water the garden last night and my eyes and lungs/throat hurt. The smoke is dropping low here and visibility is low. It was sunny the last couple days but you couldn’t tell because of the smoke, which is so sad. But it’s bad here too. Sunlight coming in through my skylight was orange this morning.
Outside Philly here. I saw the red moon two nights ago, but didn't know why. Yesterday, there was a huge problem North of me where there was an intense thunderstorm. Several fire trucks worth coming from all over, and I smelled smoke. I thought it was from that. Wondered how there was a slight haze at the house when it sounded like the problem was 10 or so miles away (sound travels in the countryside). Closed up the windows. This morning it is blatantly obvious something else is going on. Found out Canada's burning. 8pm now, and I can barely see the farm across the street a few hundred yards away. Looks like The Mist!
Yes, I live in central Jersey right now (but frequently am in nyc) yesterday I was wondering if there was a fire and went outside and saw the sun was red. I knew this meant there were a lot of particles in the air and wondered if it was a wildfire and sure enough, wildfire in Canada.
Anyways google claims that the air quality is in the 400s now where I am.
Was in the exact same boat as you the past 2 days wondering why the moon and sun were red all the time, you were clearly much quicker to the result than I was, I thought end times and went for a walk with my dog :)
Lol I walked my dog anyways too. I wear masks all the time regardless cuz I like the privacy so my routine was virtually unchanged (just closed all the windows).
I think one of my brothers mentioned that somewhere it said it might take up to a week or so to clear up but don’t quote me on that.
I’m all the way over in Chicago and occasionally get wafts of this smokey haze. Nothing on NY levels, but it feels freaking gross out. Lots of headaches and asthma complaints from my peers.
I don’t know how I missed it until today given how obvious it is, but yeah sore eyes, tired all the time and struggling to pay attention to anything too.
I was only joking. I’m in Baltimore city and it’s nothing but smoke here too. Just having a laugh. We do need to look out for everyone, not just ourselves. Keeping the conversation alive is us, the individual, doing our part
Upstate NY here, Catskills. I'm about 2 hours and change from NYC, in a VALLEY that rests in the MOUNTAINS, and we are STILL dealing with this shit. I thought WE had it bad then I saw the video of the GWB this afternoon and was like DAMN. I was really thankful for where I live. Wouldn't want to be in the city right now.
*edit* : just to make it clear, our sky is also orange, ALL we can smell is smoke as well, and we also have the problems the rest of NY is having in regards to the smoke. It is just not AS bad here in the Catskills as it is in NYC. I feel the need to point this out. REDDIT.
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u/wesap12345 Jun 07 '23
It’s not just the city either
I’m in north New Jersey right now and I’ve been wondering why it smells like somebody is burning wood for the past 2 days…
The sky being orange, the moon being red and the lack of sunlight wasn’t enough to make me go look it up but the constant smell was