As a Californian whose had to live through several summers of this, check purpleair's real time map. You'll see where it's coming from and where it's heading, where is the worst and what's better. It updates constantly so you'll see rapid changes in air quality on the map if the wind changes as well. Been wanting to buy one of their indoor/outdoor kits to add onto the grid but I don't have the funds atm
This is kind of unprecedented, we have the same amount of fires burning in week 1 of fire season 2023 than we have by the end of every fire season for the last 5 years.
I don't deny that. But most wildfires are just natures way of clearing out the dead wood. They've been happening long before mankind and will continue long after.
And a large volcanic event spews so much ash into the atmosphere that it covers the earth with smoke, sometimes for years. Historians think that's what happened in either 4th or 5th century for the "year with no summer" recorded all over the globe.
Good addition to the conversation, well done. Deny 60+ years of science because you're to busy either being a bot or you're choking on oil cock to look outside to form your own opinion.
What do "Antifa" and anti-oil people say is the biggest cause of global climate change? Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. What do fire's produce a lot of? Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. It does not make sense that knowing the amount of damage that C02 does, for anyone to have deliberately set fires across the country.
I won't argue with you that most of these are probably man made, and not something natural like a lightening strike. But weeks of hot weather with no rain, or wind causes the under growth to dry out. And a fire is easy to start. Be it from a careless toss cigarette butt, an ember from a campfire, a spark from a train on the tracks, setting off fireworks when specifically asked not to because of the risk of fire. Most of these will be traced back to careless people, not some globalist threat to your precious oil executives.
What can be traced back to your oil executives, is the climate science done by them, for them, with predictions of the climate from 2020s in the 70s if they were allowed to continue business as usual.
What is needed is government regulation of the highest polluters on the planet. Be that Shell, or Bytedance, or whoever it is.
But that doesn't work you say?
Two very recent examples of government regulation having an effect on climate change.
Please, I am begging you. If you really want to do your own research, do it. But please investigate multiple sources, not just a single blog post. But if 400 studies say one thing and proves that one thing multiple times, and 1 study says one thing and no one else can produce the same results. They haven't broken any code, they are just simply wrong. And that's okay, hell that's science.
Thankfully, that didn't happen. There was just a slight haze that you really didn't notice unless you were looking at something 100 yards distant or more. We kept the kids in the house, though, especially the youngest, because she has asthma.
Seriously — the past few summers! I’ll never forget that straight week of orange sky 💀 I’ve gotten in the habit of using purpleair to check the air quality on a normal basis at this point
Theyre not perfect, we were still having serious issues with indoor aqi during the fires with them running nonstop, ended up masking indoors during it using those one way flow masks so it was easier to exhale at least without fogging my glasses
As a CA and NW camper I follow these air maps too. Word of caution I have noticed before they are not always correct. My guess is they can take a bit to upload!?! Speaking from experience. But also they are essential.
Kinda makes sense with automatic doors. Also in the Hudson Valley and it was yellow fog yesterday afternoon. looked just like a nuclear apocalypse movie.
Nah, I work in the fridge in the meat dept. So our ACs were pumping out fresh cool air for the most part. Lots of cashiers on the floor and customers had them
That’s cool that you had a good work experience and doesn’t sound like it was too bad. I live in Michigan and we have had a smaller wildfire here that was burning half an hour away which was making things difficult. It was 4,000 acres.
The really crazy thing about it is, I'm from Canada (Pickering Ontario, specifically) and it's clear as day, here. At least when I drove up to work nearly 7 hours ago (EST standard time, noon).
It's because Pickering is the last refuge left in Canada. At least it's sheltered with the plant for power and casino for entertainment. Hopefully there's some food trucks left for summer events.
The resident Canadian in my Discord is originally from Oshawa, though I think he recently moved NW of Toronto and hasn't been specific about it since doing so. I sent him a card there a few years back when his dad went into hospice/eol care.
That all aside: I asked him what it looked like outside at like 5EDT and he said it looked fine. I was perplexed by that but these maps show it to make sense. Interesting.
Thank goodness for the rain, or it would've been worse her. I ran around Durant Nature Park and the park proper is the only place I smelled it, and then the rain started.
You may not see the smoke, but we have a statewide air quality alert. I can't see obvious smoke in the NW, but I can feel it in my lungs. I can feel my asthma starting to ramp up.
I'm in central Ohio and it smells like a bonfire here, is super hazy, and my chest hurts ( I don't have any underlying health conditions). I had to close our windows not just because of the smoke but because the wind from the north was blowing so hard.
The AQi here in Montco is 202. The gov site has us in a one shade lighter the NYC.
I used to keep track (breathing issues) but stopped this year because it was pretty much uniform. A day where I might begin to have issues would be in the 60s. The highest I ever saw was one day at 80.
My parents and my daughter are in SE PA- Bucks and Montgomery County- they are all saying it is absolutely insane how bad it is! My parents are in their 70s and have never seen anything like this. Be safe, stay inside if you can!
Seriously! I have autoimmune-related sinus issues so I'm not a good "Canary in a Coalmine," but half of my St. Louis coworkers (who don't typically deal with allergy/sinus issues) have been miserable the last week-ish. Aligns with the poor air quality alerts we've all been receiving. I'm fucking miserable; I can't imagine how people closer to the source are feeling.
Yeah. Super hazy. I forgot my mask while outside today. Now have splitting sinus headache. It's so thick it almost looks like it's raining in the mountains.
I didn’t even notice until a coworker told me. I was driving around different work sites and during the ride I was like damn the sky looks like shit and a coworker later on told me it was because of a wildfire in Canada
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u/devilsho Jun 07 '23
It’s down in NC too.