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In NYC and was just outside. Large percentage of people wearing masks. Smells like a fire pit. Looks like blade runner. Interesting times.
by jnsie 3y ago
In NYC and was just outside. Large percentage of people wearing masks. Smells like a fire pit. Looks like blade runner. Interesting times.
- kulikalov 3y agoIs it unusual? My first year here
- kadoban 3y agoYes, quite unusual.
- roywiggins 3y agoIt's pretty much unprecedented.
- tjohns 3y agoUnprecedented for the east coast. It's a reality we've been living with on the west coast for the last few years already.
- EMCymatics 3y agoThis is the thickest, longest lasting, and furthest traveling wild fire smoke I've ever experienced. I Left the windows open to sleep and I woke up with a voice two octaves lower.
- whimsicalism 3y agoWas worse in SF a few years ago
- kaesar14 3y agoTo my research, SF AQI has never topped 249. New York just topped out at 342 today with no sign of letting up. I won't dispute that SF wildfire season being so frequent and long lasting, there's been nasty periods, but no it's factually incorrect that SF has ever been at one time worse than what's happening in NYC right now.
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- whimsicalism 3y agoI'll admit - looked at the New York ones for today after making this comment and it looked higher than I had seen in SF. I was basing on what I had seen on purpleair yesterday. e: Although I do remember a few days where I believe it might have broke 300 on purpleair
- whimsicalism 3y agoI double checked my chat messages from when this was happening in SF and it was definitely above 300 on purple air during the 2020 SF fires.
- tjohns 3y agoChecking my logs from the CZU Fire Complex back in 2020, the AQI at my house in the SF Peninsula topped out at 766. It was pretty bad.
- jxramos 3y agoone of the sensors in SF right now """ On June 7th, 2023, 4:12:06 PM PDT 10 Minute Average US EPA PM2.5 AQI is now 320 Sensor: Bill Nye the AQI """ https://map.purpleair.com/1/m/i/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0?select=67839#7.11/37.516/-122.319 https://map.purpleair.com/1/m/i/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0?select=...
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- jakeinspace 3y agoCurrently 480 in the area of Philly my parents live.
- jxramos 3y agoI believe we started suffering a long streak back in 2017 where it was back to back years of suffering. Last year we got off easy because we got hit by some lucky rains that put an end to things. Still gotta get through this summer and see how things go.
- Alupis 3y agoPretty normal for California the past few years...
- wahnfrieden 3y agoIt has broken a 1981 record. Never been this bad. No that’s not normal.
- JohnTHaller 3y agoIf you go outside in NYC you should definitely be wearing an N95 or better. Avoid going out if you can. Current AQI here is 400+ aka "Hazardous". It's currently sunny at the park near me: https://imgur.com/a/DLhxEWL https://imgur.com/a/DLhxEWL
- bobbylarrybobby 3y agoIs there a significant difference between going outside and staying indoors in a home without any filtration?
- jxramos 3y agoyes, you'll find out first hand if you buy a PM2.5 meter and measure locally in your environment. We have a battery powered one we'd take on trips with us and in the car. Buy a Bosch HEPA cabin filter for your car too, it makes a measurable difference.
- neogodless 3y agoSeems like a good meter? I can't find any reliable indicator of which might be worth the trouble.
- jxramos 3y agoyah it's hard to verify whether or not the thing has true absolute accuracy. However once I started experimenting in real world scenarios where I was able to corroborate my own subjective interpretation of my senses the numbers did correlate and scale proportionally as hoped. When it was noticeably smoky outside the numbers registered high, the higher the smoke smell the numbers reflected proportionally so. I would do experiments like vacuuming and seeing what showed up. Cooking with smoke being generated, the numbers would grow. Mine has some VOC mode too, when I took the thing to the gas station that number went way up which was pretty illuminating how much VOCs we breathe in at the pump. Another angle to the experimentation was with and without the HEPA filter being ran. When smoke would infiltrate the indoor numbers would be like 10 or 12. Run the HEPA for say 20 min the numbers get down to 2 or 3. To me that thing was doing what I expected and served us well in the wildfires.
- js2 3y agoLooks like Night of the Comet: https://imgur.com/a/MYpreX5 https://imgur.com/a/MYpreX5 Source images: http://www.ap-tyler.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Night-Of-The-Comet-1.jpg http://www.ap-tyler.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Night-O... https://www.earthcam.com/share/temp_images/1686190731284.jpg https://www.earthcam.com/share/temp_images/1686190731284.jpg
- photochemsyn 3y agoWell, it's probably an outlier on the general trend on a ten-year timescale, most climate stories on a regional basis seem to fall into that category. Of course, ten years from now we'll have something worse... But that's not something we can really control, any action we take on climate even the most drastic won't have any real effect for about 30-70 years at least. Sci-fi interpretation: Humans are a highly aggressive species derived from predatory apes, given to unpredictable violence, not very capable of long-term planning. Quarantined by alien civilizations for that reason.
- oezi 3y ago> But that's not something we can really control, any action we take on climate even the most drastic won't have any real effect for about 30-70 years at least. That is the wrong way to think about it. Any action we take now is affecting all future years. Replacing fossil fuels with renewables not only reduces carbon emissions this year but also over all the next years. Additionally, taking action now tips the economies of scales further. Renewables come cheaper, fossil investment unattractive. Thus I think the best way to face the looming catastrophy is to act more decisively and invest much more heavily now.