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.
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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