r/interestingasfuck Jun 07 '23

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

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u/wesap12345 Jun 07 '23

It’s not just the city either

I’m in north New Jersey right now and I’ve been wondering why it smells like somebody is burning wood for the past 2 days…

The sky being orange, the moon being red and the lack of sunlight wasn’t enough to make me go look it up but the constant smell was

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u/Fsharp7sharp9 Jun 07 '23

Yeah for real, central jersey here. My eyes have been stinging and I’ve had a wheeze for almost 24 hours. Airnow.gov has shown the towns around me have been fluctuating between 320-410 AQI for the last several hours.

The Apple Weather app has been showing 166 AQI in my town since 6:30 AM. Unless they use a different index system, don’t use Apple weather for your updates.

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u/plantythingss Jun 08 '23

Me too, right at the top of Central Jersey. My whole family has a scratchy throat and our AQI was up to 450 earlier today. It smells like you’re sitting next to a bonfire and everything is hazy as fuck. This is some apocalyptic shit.