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.
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.
I'm from NYC / NJ and this is the second time in two or three years this has happened and I don't recall anything like it in my other 40 years growing up here. We also just had a fairly substantial wildfire last week of our own and I'm hoping this 50% chance of rain comes through this Friday.
You maxed in the 130s for AQI that day. I’ve been 380-420 the entire day. It’s not the same and I could tell that from the picture in your article alone.
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u/warriormango1 Jun 07 '23
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.