Northeast RI. Nothing right here. As the map shows it’s not making it this far east, but someone in the far southern part of the state about 15 miles from here told me the smoke was noticeable there. Nothing like NYC. It is supposed to be shifting west and away from here.
Philly has hit 309. We are in the hazardous zone.
Useful tool for smoke forecasts. It may be a .ca site, but the forecast covers the entire continent. Forest fire smoke is a fairly frequent thing up here, though no issues at the moment.
https://firesmoke.ca/
Here’s a pic I took this afternoon of Midtown NYC from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River.
It looks like it was taken on the surface of Mars.
Argh! Trenton is right in the middle of the darkest purple on that smoke map, coming in at 346
I skipped my daily run. Might end up skipping my run tomorrow as well if this keeps up.
Oh, hey, we’ve gone down quite a bit! Now at 185. (earlier today it was 460.)
My city isn’t as bad as many other Canadian ones. You can’t smell smoke and things weren’t hazy. But the air quality reading sucks, and it is usually decent.
Something I never heard of before, two Major League Baseball games were postponed due to air quality.
The only time I saw things like this was in Baghdad during a sand storm. That was more orange.
I do the same here in WA when we get blasted with smoke from the BC forest fires, or WA forests…works great! I have a new filter at the ready for this year.
I wish to hear more about this box fan and filter option. Does one put this conglomeration in a window to draw outside air, or does one plonk this in the center of a room to filter the air already inside?
I live in St. Mary’s County, MD, which is bounded by the Potomac River, the Chesapeake Bay and the Patuxent River - so the southern end of Merrylande. Yesterday was very hazy and when I went out, there was a subtle scent of smoke. Spousal unit said when crossing the bridge over the Patuxent to Calvert County, he couldn’t see from one end to the other clearly. We’re definitely feeling the effects, but not nearly as choking as farther north. Canada needs a good, long soaking rain.
They were saying on the news yesterday that here in the Metro Detroit area our air quality was the second worst in the world (I think we lost out to New Delhi, India). That’s some #2 news.
But checking Eyebrows_Of_Doom’s air quality site link, I’m only getting 170 this morning.
I’m in western Pennsylvania. We’ve had an air quality alert. Today we are “orange” which means asthmatics and other sensitive folks may have issues.
At first I thought the haze was just due to the drought (weeks without rain) and the smell was a neighbor burning, but it’s continuous.
The latter. Most definitely, the latter. You want to minimize your exposure to the outdoor air during these horrid wildfire events to whatever degree possible.
Something is wonky about those numbers.
This morning, Trenton is 240; yesterday evening Trenton was 346.
Today (240) it’s a very slight haze with a distant note of campfire.
Yesterday afternoon (346) it looked like we were on Mars, the air made throats scratchy and the fire smell smacked you in the face immediately upon stepping outdoors.
It seems like 240 ought to be more similar to 346 than that.
Hazy here but not too hazy. Reading 203 at this point.
The NY Times smoke tracker is showing the worst of it just moved off, so I suspect the 203 is a little delayed.
I’m going to wait an hour before doing my outside stuff this morning. If it is still reading near 200, I’ll wear an N95 mask.
We’ve been a little hazy here in Chicagoland, but the sunsets have been beautiful. The White Sox game in New York yesterday was cancelled due to, and I quote, “apocalyptic air quality”. The picture of New York City taken from the air was appalling!
I spoke too soon last night. Turns out they issues an air quality alert right around when I was posting. That only means the the ppm was approaching hazardous levels but still not nice to have to breathe that stuff. Current maps show it clearing out of this area during the day.
woke up to 369 this morning in phila. we are now at 325. my office usually has a view of the airport. we can see about 4 blocks and that is it.
airtravel is canceled and i’m betting the game will be called for tonight.
This works amazingly well. You can come into your house and it smells like a forest fire inside, turn on the fan and within a short time it is cleared up. During the bad smoke season, filters fly out the doors of the hardware stores so get one soon.