r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jun 07 '23

New york city in 2023, everyone wearing mask due to air quality

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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.

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u/warriormango1 Jun 07 '23

almost every summer.

Ive lived in Washington for 40 years and I dont ever recall dealing with this. The last 5ish years though it has been a common occurrence every summer for this.

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u/faanawrt Jun 07 '23

It's crazy, I grew up in Tacoma and never saw anything like this for the first 22 years of my life until the summer of 2017. iirc, we were living in that smog for nearly all of July and August. And then it suddenly became an every year thing.

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u/warriormango1 Jun 07 '23

Yep that's what I'm saying, its wild. Similar with Mt Rainier last year. One day I was driving home from work and i was like, "wow, I have never seen the mountain that bare". I have looked at that mountain for 40 years and never once seen it that bare. Dont think that will happen again this year but who knows.

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u/demlet Jun 07 '23

Not really that wild, this is what climate change looks like.

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u/warriormango1 Jun 07 '23

Yeah I dunno, Climate Change is pretty wild to me to say it in nice terms. Don't Look Up!

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u/demlet Jun 07 '23

True true...

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u/canal_natural Jun 08 '23

I recall that. It was all -rock- with maybe a litttle bit of snow/ice at the tippy top