Here in Northwest Indiana, just outside of Chicago. Definite haze in the air, but not as bad as the east coast. Red sunsets and sunrises in a purple sky. Blood red full moon this week.
If anyone wants to know their air quality but isn’t sure how to get it type your zip code/city/state into this website. which works outside of major cities, too. My town is currently 105, which is enough that I’m feeling it (thank you history of asthma).
At least mask wearing is acceptable now. If my local air got as bad as what New York and other nearby places were experiencing I’d definitely be wearing one. Possibly my big, covers-half-my-face-and-makes-me-look-like-an-alien one and not just the covid N95 variety.
Yeah, in Manhattan here and the air is seriously shitty. The sky just got way worse within the last hour, very dark orangey-yellow. Many people now wearing masks outside.
Nearest big city to me is Richmond, VA. It’s been hazy since around noon yesterday and we can smell smoke. Air quality on the AirNow.gov site is 178, unhealthy.
Yes, I’m right nearby. There is a stiff breeze and it is mild, 60-ish degrees, thank god, or I think we’d be dropping like flies. It’s been so dry this year (and hardly any snow last winter) - we have small fires that pop up here and there despite it being leafy green temperate northeast.
Strange - I’m in Boston right now, and air is clear & no smell of smoke. Same thing at home 20 miles north this morning. I don’t know how we’re avoiding it.
In Toronto, downtown has smelled like crap since yesterday, and the air looks slightly mung-ish. Ottawa is apparently getting it much worse; there are a lot of “a week ago/today” comparison pics making the rounds, and the second shot looks like a scene from Dune.
AirNow says we’re at 460. (I’m located – click on my avatar.)
I wonder how often they update it – it was so dark here earlier in the day that part of my head kept thinking it was about to pour (we’re actually quite dry), but right now it’s a good bit lighter.
It was pretty thick yesterday; sometimes worse than it is now, but not as bad as this morning.
Central Jersey, on the Bayshore. We’re sepia toned. It is a Red Air Alert. The worst I’ve ever seen. I’ve got the house closed up and I’m running the AC despite it not being all that warm.
This map has been helpful:
We had a red sun last night at about 6pm. I’m not even stepping out right now to check.
Lots of wood burning smell here.
The bulk of the smoke and particulates are coming down from Canada, please see the NY Times map I linked.