Screenshot taken from PurpleAir. 150 and above is considered unhealthy, 300 and above is considered hazardous.
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
USA = Mordor Got it
Make Mordor Great Again
Trump is working on that.
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.
You watch they’ll use tariffs somehow
Sure it does. It can send help.
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.
What were they gonna do?
Rake the leaves!
The market will regulate itself and improve air quality
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.
They dont call it the windy city for nothing, you got all the cross streams.
It was originally called that because of a meatpacking rivalry turned sporty.
They actually call it the Windy City because of the politicians originally. I think.
This afternoon…
How are you alive right now? The 400 im stuck in is unsufferable.
Being outside earlier today was awful, I had an appointment I couldn’t miss, but I’ve got a MERV13 filter in my HVAC at home running non stop to circulate and filter, one HEPA filter on each floor of the house, and one in my office. Indoor AQI got up to 40 downstairs yesterday so I set all the purifiers to max overnight and I’m down to 10-15 this morning. We are not going outside today lol staying in our safe little bubble
I was in a very drafty house during two big fires in california, and of course close enough to both our air quality was severely impacted. We had visible smoke in the hallways. A HEPA filter on the back of a box fan in our rooms did wonders. If anyone is in need of cheap option.
Today: very unhealthy, Tomorrow: unhealthy
Eh, it gets better.
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.
There’s also Windy for a more detailed map. Also just a cool website.
Windy is cool, thanks
674…is there even air in there?
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.
If people are in the affected areas, check out https://worldwide-maskbloc.org/ to see if there’s a mask bloc near you! I’m a part of one, and we’ve been giving a lot of masks the last two days.
Take care!
Bro, wtf… that’s gotta be a typo.
That’s probably the source of the wildfires. I wouldn’t be surprised if the ppm is that high in the middle of a massive forest fire.
Hope nobody lives around there, then, because yikes. 8O
I woke up thinking the house was on fire, the smell of smoke was so thick. I’m not even in the worst parts.
Reminds me of the videos people made of the smoke in San Francisco in the style of blader runner 2049 during covid times
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.
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…
