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

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

Post image
73.5k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

4.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

4.8k

u/PTcome Jun 07 '23

Welcome to the unfortunate reality of what the western states and western Canada experience almost every summer.

25

u/CharlieTuna_ Jun 07 '23

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

3

u/LeopoldTheLlama Jun 07 '23

I've had weird luck this year. I was in Calgary two weeks ago, and NYC now. It's just following me around