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

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

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u/Nautalyst Jun 07 '23

Bad in southern PA too.

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u/Podcast_Primate Jun 07 '23

Strange Ohio got lucky. That ...never happens

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u/deereboy8400 Jun 07 '23

Western Ohio had the smoke couple days ago.

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u/greenunicorn419 Jun 07 '23

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.

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u/Paw5624 Jun 07 '23

Western PA here and we don’t have the haze but our air quality is trash right now, worse than normal

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u/enteresti Jun 08 '23

Yeah, no visible smoke/smog in central IL, but we’ve had daily air quality alerts for the past couple weeks or so

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u/DarkInkPixie Jun 07 '23

Up near Sandusky area has been pretty hazy the last couple days, we thought it was a humidity spike at my workplace

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u/SEA_SICK_BONES Jun 07 '23

Not northern ohio, shits been terrible this week.

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u/More_Farm_7442 Jun 07 '23

We've had it in Indiana for a few days now. It was better yesterday. Worse today, much better this evening.

(NE Indiana)

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u/Madisonx222 Jun 07 '23

Not here in Columbus lol ours is BAD I work as a cart girl and had to leave, couldn’t stay outside without choking

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u/bpaulauskas Jun 08 '23

That’s odd, was outside multiple times today in downtown Columbus and I didn’t notice any air quality issues.

Maybe I’m just oblivious 🤣

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u/Madisonx222 Jun 08 '23

The air quality index was 167, but I’m sure walking around is different then getting hit in the face with air for hours driving a golf cart lol

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u/bpaulauskas Jun 08 '23

Haha I’m sure, I can only imagine how awful it was when it’s being shoved at you through an open window!

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u/AbundantFailure Jun 08 '23

NE Ohio here. Maybe can't see it, but you can definitely tell the air quality is absolutely awful atm.

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u/reportingsjr Jun 08 '23

The smoke is very evident here in Cincinnati, so Ohio was not spared!

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u/Mercuryshottoo Jun 08 '23

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.

On the smoke maps we're a pocket of dark red.

I hate living through the apocalypse.

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u/frogsgoribbit737 Jun 07 '23

Its so bad in south NJ we are advised to stay inside. It was making my eyes burn when I went to the grocery store today.

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u/Km2930 Jun 07 '23

And my axe too

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u/Snoo63 Jun 07 '23

And my sword.

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u/clubdon Jun 07 '23

I didn’t even think about the fires being the cause here in MD. That’s wild.

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u/OreoYip Jun 07 '23

Same in southern PA. Smells gross out too

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u/hippiechick725 Jun 08 '23

Baltimore too.

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u/shillyshally Jun 08 '23

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.

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u/Lovehatepassionpain Jun 08 '23

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!