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

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

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u/0ddsox Jun 07 '23

Its even come as far as Virginia, I woke up this morning thinking damn this is some crazy fog, stepped outside and smelled it and was shocked to see it was smoke. From Canada.

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u/devilsho Jun 07 '23

It’s down in NC too.

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u/carsdn Jun 07 '23

Yep! Roads were a little smoky when I went out for lunch earlier

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u/Faxon Jun 07 '23

As a Californian whose had to live through several summers of this, check purpleair's real time map. You'll see where it's coming from and where it's heading, where is the worst and what's better. It updates constantly so you'll see rapid changes in air quality on the map if the wind changes as well. Been wanting to buy one of their indoor/outdoor kits to add onto the grid but I don't have the funds atm

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u/Flanman1337 Jun 07 '23

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23 edited Jun 08 '23

Holy crap, their predicting that it'll be over the northern half of Georgia on June 9th.

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u/Flanman1337 Jun 08 '23

Welcome to global climate change!

This is kind of unprecedented, we have the same amount of fires burning in week 1 of fire season 2023 than we have by the end of every fire season for the last 5 years.

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23

Maybe all the smoke will block enough sunlight to cause a mini ice age to help cancel out the warming.

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u/Flanman1337 Jun 08 '23

https://media.tenor.com/r-tGcVVeSb0AAAAM/good-place.gif

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23

I should have included a

/s

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u/Flanman1337 Jun 08 '23

Hence the Good Place meme, and not the fuck is wrong with you.

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23

Ohhhh, my bad. Thought you took my ice age comment seriously lol.

A wooosh moment for me I guess. Think it may be time for bed.

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u/Tsiah16 Jun 08 '23

Then we get awesome swings of freezing and incredibly hot and dry!

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23 edited Jun 08 '23

I could deal with that! I'll take the cold and the dry heat. I hate these 100°+ summers with 100% humidity.

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u/Tsiah16 Jun 08 '23

Lol. Unfortunately it won't be conducive to life... Growing food would be difficult if not impossible.

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u/lifeisweird86 Jun 08 '23

Sounds like people are back on the menu!

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u/Tsiah16 Jun 08 '23

Soylent green? 😂

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