Screenshot taken from PurpleAir. 150 and above is considered unhealthy, 300 and above is considered hazardous.
Definitely isnt a state between Ohio and New Jersey
I’ve always said New York City and Philadelphia ought to belong to New Jersey, and this map seems to have taken my advice.
I came back from vacation this week, and it was quite a moment when I saw the sun rising in the morning, through a yellow haze, colored a fluorescent shade of “apocalypse pink.” Very reassuring, very comforting.
I should’ve stayed up in the mountains a while longer.
Oof. That’s horrendous. Hoping for a steady nó lightning few days to assist.
We had days of 999 (where the scale stopped) during the Australian bushfires in 2019, and anything over 150 was already brutal. Above 300 and you feel like you can chew the air.
Last year our area hit 800+. It was surreal. Apocalyptic looking skies.
don’t worry, USA cut all of the ability for the EPA to do anything, so this will definitely get better.
I understand the naysayers’ point but a functioning EPA would work WITH Canada. We could, you know, be a good neighbor. Together both nations could help predict fires, track them, respond together, etc. The current environment of aggression is not the only possible course of action. Unfortunately, there is no hope in that changing this moment.
this 👆
I cannot stress enough that Canada is a sovereign country and not under the jurisdiction of the EPA.
Oh yeah i know lol, im just bitching that the US has no way to do anything about this.
I thought it was like a hat or something.
The EPA can’t do anything about Canadian forest fires. Canadian Right wingers have cut firefighting budgets and dropped emissions laws to align with the USA, so this problem, which literally never happened before 5 years ago, will be the new summer experience for North America.
The market will regulate itself and improve air quality
What were they gonna do?
Rake the leaves!
when I was a little kid watching LotR for the first time and Boromir described Mordor by saying “the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume” I thought, okay I get what you’re going for, but even for this setting that’s a little over the top melodramatic, dontcha think?
now I can’t leave my house because the greed of evil men has literally corrupted the very essence of the Earth and blotted out the Sun
This afternoon…
I travelled up to Michigan to visit family and friends for a few weeks, as well as enjoy the lake. Can’t go outside because the air is, according to the news, “the equivalent of smoking 17 cigarettes for every hour you’re outside”.
Shits fucked up here right now.
What’s hilarious is watching people smoke cigarettes in this air.
Damn and you don’t even get high what a ripoff
What is happening? Arent there air usually very clean?
Wow! We’re officially the worst air quality in the world right now!
NUMBER ONE! NUMBER ONE! NUMBER ONE! WOOOOOOOO USA BABY YEEEHAW 🇺🇸🎇🔥🌡️🎆🇺🇸
Take that China!
Canada is burning.
Siberian wildfires would have the same effect in China, but with added industrial pollution.
500 where I am right now. I didn’t even have a sense of the AQI scale until today, and now it’s quite skewed.
It’s like learning what airplanes are on 9/11
I don’t know why I’m replying to myself instead of editing my first comment but, well I don’t think comments cost money, and they seemed like iterative thoughts to me. So don’t worry about it.
Welcome to what the west coast has been dealing with for many years now. There are more important people in the east maybe we’ll start to think about trying to start to take this seriously.
We’ve been dealing with wildfire smoke for years now, our genius Conservative provincial government has been cutting the budget for the services that prevent and put them out.
The fires are in Ontario, just north-ish of Thunder Bay.
And the genius Federal liberals have thrown out most emissions laws and taxes to reduce carbon emissions and pollution. So the whole country can be a toxic shithole like Alberta.
Then I don’t know how to be any clearer! You take that thing that’s in your hand, and you-
If you say “sweep the forest” one more time-
This has been happening here for the last three years.
The problem is being attributed to the disappearance of some mystical “forest rakers” that no one has ever met.
cries in Washingtonian
The good news is the heat wave in Toronto has ended… things cooled down when the smoke blocked out the sun.
On Tuesday I was actually thinking “huh, we haven’t had smoke this year, that’s cool.” Wednesday morning… well shit there it is.
I was in NYC today. The visibility is bad, probably down to less than a mile sometimes, but the local airport says it was 2 miles.
The Hollywood filter has come to NYC
It was so much worse in the ‘80s in the L.A. basin. This smoke is nasty, but the layer of brown hazmat that laid over Los Angeles was awful.
You lived in the 1900s?!
We breathed the brown air.
Thats why we wore onions on our belts, but not yellow onions, because of the war…
Can people catch explosive diarrhea from this too?.. But really, I’m surprised there’s data on this but not that
