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400+?? Holy fuck
Use them n95s.
Also MERV-13 airfilters, or HEPA filters for indoors. The cheap hack is a box fan with a MERV13 furnace filter. Aha you say, I'll just put that in my furnace... note that many furnaces are not designed for filters this fine, check before installing.
Good luck and hope the wind changes.
In 2017 there was a 30k acre fire about two miles from our house. AQI was in the 450 range for days. Kinda looked like this at middayQuote:
Originally Posted by gravitylover
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Ms TBS said I could trim my weed crop indoors because it smelled better than the indoor air
We regularly get multiple days of 240+ around here
That looks like NY/NJ right now.
Wtf Canada?
The last fire fuckery in near Tahoe created 650+ days. 400 definitely sucks regardlessQuote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
New high mark that I've found on the map: 529 in Mt Bethel, PA
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Sorry to hear that the AQ is so bad. Amazon used to have corsi rosenthal box kits available. I’m not sure if that’s still the case. They’re cheaper and more effective than many portable HEPA filters.
View from friend’s work in midtown, no filter:
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NYC is mostly around 400 now with high 400s and even a 508 on the beach on Long Island. As a cloud bank moves in from the north you'd think it would be moving the smoke ahead of and around it but, no. It's capping it and holding it tight to the ground just to my north now, the pics are dark grey with swirly air :eek:
Some say “get used to it.”
As Smoke Darkens the Sky, the Future Becomes Clear
Maybe it isn't sea level rise (water) that will make our lives miserable, but rather fire/smoke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
Yeah, it got pretty bad today.
The Bronx
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Then like an hour later in Yonkers
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I read today that no major estimate of climate change fiscal costs including the costs of wildlife smoke days.Quote:
Originally Posted by From_the_NEK
Couldn't see foul balls at all when it was still high above the ground Tuesday night, just got lost in the background of the heavy white smoke.
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Then it got grim out my midtown office window yesterday.
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Much better today...so far.
AQI peaked at 460 in CNY yesterday.
Is it too much to hope that this wakes more and more people up about the need for serious climate change action?
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Good luck with that.Quote:
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It's better this morning, local numbers are around 160-170 but the damage is done. My throat and eyes feel like shit and this mild nausea sux. Not that I need to go anywhere but at least the airports are open again because the visibility is so much better. Looks like Philly to DC is in the shit today though :(
DC area in the 400's this morning. Baltimore and Philly 300's.Quote:
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There is A LOT of smoke over North America right now. :(
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lotsa smokey valleys in the greater pnw this morning
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https://jasminedevv.github.io/AQI2cigarettes/ For you guys in the North East. You can now see how many cigarettes you've smoked by being outside.
East is the new West, I guess. Have fun. It sucks and we know it.
Surprised to see the ballgame occurring. Curious what the team docs were saying and debating. NYC is in the midst of another covid surge. There’s strong science about the cumulative health hazard of smoke and covid. Y’all, take care!
The smoke in the Bay Area from the burning of Paradise resulted in the Bay Area Council to take action. More groups with their influence pushing on national and international level policy makers to make long term changes could start to move the needle in a big way.Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
It seems that people en masse have to experience things like this before they really take it seriously. One can hope but I’m very pessimistic.Quote:
Originally Posted by bodywhomper
IME it only lasts for about two years after the last event. That’s a narrow window for getting things fixed. After that people think things are back to normal, or they’re focused on some new issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by The SnowShow
This smoke is annoying. I think it's time to move west so I can get away from it.
It took several consecutive smoky summers for Bay Area Council to start to take “real” action.
California and the R5 USFS have created a task force with a 1M of new tx per year (plus maintenance tx’s). They’re acknowledging that they’re loosing momentum….
Went out to collect the garbage can this morning and it smelled like a campground outside. We were hit with a fire ban at Killbear over the weekend and of course the skitters were nasty. Thermacell repeller worked quite well. Looking forward to rain next week. Tired of watering the garden.
Made the mistake of turning on CNN. Holy shit, this smoke is all they are talking about. Got like 10 reporters stationed throughout the area reporting how far they can see and just rambling the same nonsense over and over.
Slow news I guess.
Nothing will change as long as the narrative is that’s it’s from a foreign country. Would be even better if it were from Mexico or Venezuela or China.
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You right coasters act all tough until it's your turn. It has been one day of numbers lower than CA. It's not even snowing ash out there.
Wife just had a client cancel a big NYC gig due to the smoke. For which we got a bit of a chuckle out of that they would cancel indoor meetings having lived where we did. Not like WE ever got to cancel work due to wildfire smoke.
Montanans, Californians, (and Albertans) be like:
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Chinese spy balloons be fulla super concentrated smoke/Beijing air.Quote:
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Has Canada apologized yet?Quote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
I'm reading that the policy for big remote Canada fires is to let them burn like they do in AK. So east coasters should expect a chance smoke for months until winter puts them out. Sure, as that article says winds are fickle, and the weather may take a drastic change and tamp down the smoke, but damn things could get bleak out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
Basically just another summer out West these days.
Well if they don't want to do anything about it, I don't want to hear Canadians bitching about air pollution and starving polar bears.
Wind coming straight out of the north is kind of unusual here. Normal wind out of NW would send it more to New EnglandQuote:
Originally Posted by muted reborn
Same shit as is giving us rain day after day after day.Quote:
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Bangoralifax?
Sounds about right.Quote:
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