Screenshot taken from PurpleAir. 150 and above is considered unhealthy, 300 and above is considered hazardous.
This afternoon…
674…is there even air in there?
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
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.
Like someone took a liberal knife and sliced it up
Reminds me of the videos people made of the smoke in San Francisco in the style of blader runner 2049 during covid times
There are people responsible for climate change. We should feed them to the fires. Perhaps it will appease the gods.
It won’t work, but we should still try.
I swear chicago is at some sort of crux. no matter where the wildfires are we seem to get hit. north, south, east, or west.
There’s also Windy for a more detailed map. Also just a cool website.
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.
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.
Damn and you don’t even get high what a ripoff
Your inept administration in Michigan wrote a letter to Carney about the smoke. Fucking idiots.
Uh…I’m visiting…
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.
This is fine.
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.
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.
Probably got cut by doge
cries in Washingtonian
Wow! We’re officially the worst air quality in the world right now!
So much winning!
Take that China!
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