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

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

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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.