I thought I was seeing things earlier today as the air looked hazy. I wasn't, were under a code orange air quality alert due to the Canadian wildfires everyone is talking about. In freaking North Carolina. That's crazy.
Should be interesting... I've driven from SW Ontario up and over the lakes to BC, and am now on my way back (in Saskatoon now), and we haven't really seen any indications of smoke. I'm thinking we'll be hitting it hard soon as we make our way back home over the next week.
I have a son in school in Albany at the moment. He just said the smoke is nothing worse than California experienced both in 2019 and 2020. Welcome to the West.
What Crown said. The Ringer posted a pretty strong write up on it yesterday, The Cowardly End of Golf’s Civil War. https://www.theringer.com/2023/6/6/...di-arabian-public-investment-fund-jay-monahan
I'm in some weird New England pocket where the AQI is a stunningly low 6. Meanwhile Syracuse is at a whopping 411
Here’s what we have for air quality as of an hour ago: There was definitely a post-apocalyptic feel to things around here this morning: That was about 9am, when it’d have been otherwise bright and sunshiny.
Oof, that yellow haze is unmistakable. Been there, done that, bought all the room air purifiers. I hope it clears quickly and that you have a mask for outdoors. That shit is seriously hazardous. When we were holed up due to air quality issues a couple summers ago, I always wondered about the birds and other creatures. How miserable and confusing for them.
Gotten bad enough we're getting air quality warnings in South Carolina. No visible haze or smoke smell.
Popping up to say: watch out for seemingly unrelated things when air quality gets bad. I had two cocktails one night during the worst of CA’s 2020 fire season and had The Worst Hangover Of My Life the next day. I’m more of a lightweight than I used to be, but two drinks shouldn’t have me repeatedly barfing. And it’s cumulative, this was after multiple weeks of hiding out inside with air purifiers. What I mean to say is, been there, get it, hope it clears up soon for you all!
Damn lady. We had wildfires nearby during peak covid. Hubs worked in these giant buildings with intake fans that sucked a bunch of outside air inside for cooling, but had no filtration on them. Big Corps did not give a shit, so lower management didn't give a shit. The halls had visible haze from the smoke. Hubs shockingly had symptoms, had to be tested for covid. Turns out covid and smoke inhalation have similar symptoms. I didn't notice much personally with the smoke, but I was really hiding out from it and our air quality was really only terrible for like 10 days or 2 weeks. The smoke just traveled through. Some regions due to geography and atmospheric conditions have to deal with the smoke for soooo much longer.
I just keep telling myself the folks up there in Canada have it a lot worse. That said, the air quality has worsened to a rating of 460 out of 500 on the graphic.
It’s “only “ at 315 here. I’m surprised it’s not affecting my asthma more. Then again I expose myself to severe smoke conditions on garage night with the fog machine, flammable substances and other recreational chemicals. Smoke’em if you got’em.
My cousin is a firefigjter in Ca. He once responded to a grassfire, they were able to put it out before it spread. At the starting point was a dead, xtra-crispy guy under power lines who had been trying to steal the copper from live power lines and sparked the fire.