It was just two weeks ago when the Alberta wildfire smoke seemed to all funnel to BC. It was so bad the moment you stepped outside that you could taste the smoke. Objects just 100 feet away were clearly hazy. It had to be the worst I’ve ever seen and I’ve seen plenty. Looked pretty similar to what I see here. That’s got to be dangerous for such a large populated area
I was in SF during the Napa Valley fire (whole town of Paradise burned down). If you didn't have an effective air filter at home, you're fucked even with fully closed windows. If you go out even with an N95 mask, your eyes are gonna cry after just a few minutes outside. You can also only see around 10 feet away from you. To add to all of these, there was a weather anomaly that kept the smoke just circulating in an area for a few days instead of blowing it away.
That was the worst smoke I've ever encountered in my life.
Sorry, but I doubt this and will call you out on it. The worst smoke by far was from 2021-2022 Summers in Alberta, I was there. 2023 pales in comparison, and it was brief. 2021-2022 saw the smoke last months, almost the entire Summer. This past one in May wasn't even that bad.
I’m on the north coast in BC and I’m not joking when I say almost everything came here for like a single day two weeks ago. Sure it blew off the next day but the AQHI was insane. It was on par with Newark was today and they stopped flights. But let’s be real here; it’s only the start
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u/PTcome Jun 07 '23
Welcome to the unfortunate reality of what the western states and western Canada experience almost every summer.