Saw a red alert in my email, but only after I went running to catch a service truck I’d called. They had gone to the wrong address. I’m feeling okay, though.
Wily Canadians. You think they’re all nice, then they send their demon geese to the U.S. When that doesn’t work they set their country on fire and try to smoke us out like bees from a hive.
180 in north Ohio. It was a lot worse yesterday.
169 for me; not running tonight
Going down in my neighborhood, right at 100.
My block didn’t get any of the local downpours, in fact, I’m not sure we got rained on at all, but maybe the nearby rain helped a bit;
It was a weird day today. I had to take my husband in to the hospital very early to have a procedure done. Masking rules have been relaxed in the hospital and they are optional in the waiting room.
Husband is staying overnight, so I left the hospital in the late afternoon to go home, relax and get some sleep. The air was so gross looking I left my mask on - it’s the first time ever that I wanted to wear a mask more outdoors than indoors - and that was at a hospital!
My iPhone weather app is still showing air quality at 2. I don’t know if that’s a different scale than you folks are using, or if it’s really that bad. 
We went from 270 this morning to 30 now after some storms. A friend joked that our air is cleaned but our groundwater pH is probably 11.
2 would actually be good. The bottom of the scale goes from 0 (best) to 200 in 50pt blocks for good, moderate, warning and bad, then 200-300 for extremely bad and 300-500 for hazardous.
Whoo-hoo! we’re down to 65!
Here in Ohio it’s pretty thick.
Went jogging yesterday, and I think I could actually smell the smoke.
Yes, yesterday most should have not taken the bus, as I did. Today is better, but until its below 100, people would be wise to limit time outdoors.
When will this alleviate?
It was supposed to be moderately bad this morning (Unhealthy for sensitive groups, 100-150) but it’s been Good and Moderate most of the day. Now it’s up to 105.
Northwest PA was terrible yesterday, and worse today.
We went to a big box discount store near Cleveland and it was even worse there inside than it was outside, eye-wateringingly worse. I have no idea how the employees the at the store tolerated it. The store should have been closed.
I don’t run/jog, but I walk a couple miles every day. Yesterday was bad. Like a foggy day and the air smelled of smoke. When I burn a brush pile it doesn’t smell that bad.
165 this morning. The skies are clear in Lake county.
It’s a different scale. Environment Canada uses the Air Quality Health Index (AQHI), which is an 11-point scale. 1-3 is low risk, 4-6 moderate, and 7-10 is high risk. Anything beyond 10 is lumped together into “very high risk”. The US uses the Air Quality Index (AQI), a six-part colour-coded scale that runs from 0 to 300 in five categories from “good” (0-50) to “very unhealthy” (201-300) and a special sixth category for anything over 300 (“hazardous”).
Thanks for that. I thought there were likely two different scales.
161 in philly. soft and grey.
Yesterday (June 29) was bad here in Maryland. I think the AQI was around 180. There was a distinct haze and you could smell smoke. Hopefully today will be better.
There’s a lot of stuff that’s not wood burning in a wildfire.