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Almost every county in Washington is F for particle pollution. Meanwhile, New Jersey doesn’t have a county below B for particle pollution. The rest of the west
by nocsi 3y ago
Almost every county in Washington is F for particle pollution. Meanwhile, New Jersey doesn’t have a county below B for particle pollution. The rest of the west coast is the same. Is there something coming in from the Pacific Ocean to be causing this?
- justinludwig 3y agoIt's the smoke from the annual forest fires of late summer and early fall throughout the West Coast. That smoke makes for really high individual 24-hour readings, plus ends up skewing the annual averages as well.