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Argh... AQI went to 367
(temporarily, something burning in the toaster)
Had to open windows, PC fan Corsi Rosenthal boxes great at maintaining air quality (extremely silent) but can't deal with active burning inside, lol.
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#AQI is up to 115. Windows closed at home all day. We've got a pretty good breeze blowing but I don't think it's blowing in the right direction to get the smoke out of here. It's hard to believe I was away for three days. Nothing changed.
Well, it is a little cooler.
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I flew the #drone just now to get some snapshots of my neighbor's house under construction. I fly every 2 to 3 days to help them keep a record of construction as it happens.
Here's a photo it shot on its way back to base. That's my house in the foreground. #AQI is up to 85 now and you can see the smoke. #AerialPhotography
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Although it looks like the smoke is back in the area, the #AQI is only 46 at my house right now. If it follows the regular pattern, the smoke will drift across the valley to my neighborhood before noon. I'll be keeping an eye on things. In the meantime, it smells like #smoke so I'll keep the house mostly closed up today.
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I already do most of my socializing outdoors for covid reasons. 🌬
And I'm fond of taking my morning coffee outdoors when weather permits for grounding / slowing down / mental health reasons. ☕️
But now I'm making a conscious effort to simply pass more time outdoors just to appreciate the fact that I can, as it's becoming increasingly common to not have the option, what with some days being too hot ☀️, some days having unhealthy air quality due to wildfire smoke 💨, and sometimes having to take extra precaution against mosquitos because of West Nile Virus or EEE. 🦟
I can imagine a future of being constantly forced inside for health reasons - and then I hope indoor air quality standards will catch up to the need!! 😷
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Every morning, I text the AQI reading from my sensor to my walking partner and let her decide if we walk. Today, the #AQI is 90 at my house. She says yes, but an hour later than our usual 7 AM.
The walk is 1.6 miles round-trip, up our gravel road and back. There are enough hills to get my pulse up so I close my watch's #exercise ring on every walk. I'd like to do it at least five days a week but between the weather and her work schedule (she works from home) it's been tough. (1/2)
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Here's an interesting thing about the #Microsoft data center under construction in my town. It has SIX air quality sensors that send data to Purple Air.
I'm left to wonder why so many? Are they expecting to generate bad air? #AQI #DataCenter
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And that looks like the end of the good air for today. The #AQI is already up to 160 at my house. I've got my windows closed and will not be going outdoors again. #smoke #wildfires
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The high #AQI we had in Portland this week was pretty gnarly, but I’m glad I have my N99 grade mask and #eScooter so I wasn’t stuck in my house (and good air filters when I was home). I could’ve put my #eBike on max-assist, but I still would’ve been breathing harder than normal.
15 years ago I didn’t have to think about this at all, but having a (non-smoking) dad die at a very young age due to lung cancer and now regular nearby forest fires makes this a constant concern.
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The AQI is bad but not *that* bad today, but I have a splitting headache and my eyes are burning. There's a new fire just to the west of us and the smoke is blowing over into the valley.
I had experienced plenty of bad AQI in the past but now I'm discovering the complexities of AQI -- smoky air, smoky smell, numbers on the chart, how I actually feel, all of which are related but not directly.
I'm irritable because I wanted to go out for a hike today. 😠
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OPB: Wildfire smoke becomes a regular occurrence across Oregon, as residents learn to adapt
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/08/05/wildfire-smoke-oregon-normal-unhealthy-residents-adapt/
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"Wildfire smoke becomes a regular occurrence across Oregon, as residents learn to adapt"
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/08/05/wildfire-smoke-oregon-normal-unhealthy-residents-adapt/
"The past decade has seen a big uptick in the number of days with unhealthy levels of smoke. That includes nearly every part of Oregon."
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"When will the smoke go away? Experts say relief is in sight for Oregon"
#GiftLink = https://www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/2026/08/when-will-the-smoke-go-away-experts-say-relief-is-in-sight-for-oregon.html?gift=ba7a863b-d866-4e54-b7e1-91a2ceee2a14
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Our AQI has between 150 - 200 for the last few days. That's bad, but nothing compared to many other areas in Oregon.
I'm so happy we bought some air purifiers back in 2020. We've had them running continuously for the last couple days. It helps a lot!
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@KevinFreitas Here, inside and out. I really thought the outside AQI would be higher based on the limited view, but the smoke might be thicker north of here. Who the hell knows? #AQI
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And just like that, we entered the part of summer when the sky is orange and kids’ activities are strictly indoor. It becomes a yearly occurrence nowadays. Thinking about everyone impacted by the fires, not just the smoke.
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I updated https://paku.app/press with Paku 7 details, which will start rolling out soon and officially launches August 24! If you write about indie apps or air quality it’s worth a look. Reposts appreciated! #aqi #airquality #ios #apps
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We are experiencing dangerous levels of particulates in Western Washington air due to the atmospheric shift bringing smoke from the east in the state emergency of Spokane fires. Here's some advice and assistance for vulnerable people in our city.
#Seattle #smoke #AQI #150
https://mailchi.mp/seattle.gov/amr-action-alert-8487461?e=40e84d2785 -
#AirQuality concerns dominate western #Colorado with incoming smoke
by: Dalen Brazelton
Posted: Jun 24, 2026 / 06:25 AM MDTGRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — "Fires in #Utah and Colorado and smoke in the valley is causing massive air quality concerns. Chances for showers tonight will help soak up a lot of particulates in the air, but with near-100 degree highs today, most chances for daytime rain will evaporate. Dry lightning also remains a concern, with possibilities of it sparking another wildfire. Chances for storms jump to 60 percent tonight."
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YIKES! WMTW just reported that the fire was started by #Lithium!
#BerwickME – "A water conservation order is in place in Berwick due to an ongoing fire.
"The fire is at Berwick Iron and Metal Recycling on Route 236."
Related video [#WMTW]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pVfqZnifQs#LithiumFire #Maine #ToxicSmoke #SouthernMaine #AQI #AirQualityAlert
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https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/nd_sc_pollution_grap
#delhi #newdelhi #india #news #press #DelhiAirQuality #SupremeCourt #AirPollution #GRAP #EnvironmentalJustice #CleanAir #AQI #PollutionControl #AirMonitoring #ClimateAction #PublicHealth #IndiaNews #DelhiPollution #AirQualityManagement #EcoLaw #GreenIndia #UrbanEnvironment #AirQualityAlert #EnvironmentalPolicy
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We can't breathe
The Invisible #ClimateChange Effect That Is Most Likely to Kill You
#AirPollution is less dramatic than floods or storms, less inconvenient, and much harder to politicize. It’s also much more deadly.
Liza Featherstone, August 1, 2025
Excerpt: "In #NewYorkCity, I’m lucky enough to enjoy better air quality than many other places. We are only the fiftieth most #polluted city in the world, way behind #Chicago, #Dubai, #Jakarta, #Delhi, and numerous (enormously populous) cities in #China. But for a few days early this week, it was hard to breathe and our phones were buzzing with alerts warning that the most vulnerable—the very young and the very old, and those with poor respiratory health—should stay indoors, due to smoke from Canadian wildfires. But the elderly, the asthmatic, and the babies weren’t the only ones feeling it; my son, a college soccer player, got headaches training outside, as did his friends—all fellow rain-or-shine athletes. Yet for the most part, the problem has gone unremarked.
"Compared to a flood, a fire, or a heat wave, a bad #AirQualityAlert isn’t that inconvenient even when it’s happening. You can still go to work and otherwise go about your day. If you own property, it won’t be damaged. And because #AirPollution lacks visuals, it doesn’t lend itself to morbid #doomscrolling or panicked media coverage.
"Yet compared to floods, fires, and heat waves, bad air is much more deadly. In fact, the danger is barely even comparable. The World Health Organization estimates that air pollution kills about seven million people every year. The direct death toll from heat waves is under half a million, although that’s getting worse. The number of people who die in floods annually is in the thousands, and the direct death toll from wildfires is much smaller than that, though these threats are also getting worse. "
#AirQualityAlert #AirQuality #AirQualityIndex #AQI #AirPollution #AirIsLife #ParticulatePollution #ParticlePollution
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#AirQuality in #NorthernMaine reaches 'unhealthy' levels due to #wildfire smoke
Though the Maine DEP expects a large amount of smoke to move out on Wednesday, the smoke will not entirely clear out of Maine until Thursday.
July 15, 2025
#ClimateDiaryMaine #ClimateDiary #Maine #MaineWx #AQI #AirIsLife #ClimateChange #Wildfires #FireSeason
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The smoke from #Canada’s #wildfires may be even more #toxic than usual
A legacy of #mining means that #ToxicMetals could be carried along plumes of smoke.
by Matt Simon, June 5, 2025
"More than 200 wildfires are blazing across central and western Canada, half of which are out of control because they’re so hard for crews to access, forcing 27,000 people to evacuate. Even those nowhere near the wildfires are suffering as smoke swirls around Canada and wafts south, creating hazardous air quality all over the midwestern and eastern parts of the United States. The smoke is even reaching Europe.
"As the climate changes, the far north is drying and warming, which means wildfires are getting bigger and more intense. The area burned in Canada is now the second largest on record for this time of year, trailing behind the brutal wildfire season of 2023. That year, the amount of #carbon blazed into the atmosphere was about three times the country’s #FossilFuel emissions. And the more carbon that’s emitted from wildfires — in Canada and elsewhere — the faster the #PlanetaryWarming, and the worse the fires.
" 'There’s obviously the #ClimateFeedback concern,' said Mike Waddington, an environmental scientist at McMaster University in Ontario who studies Canada’s forests. 'But increasingly we’re also concerned about the smoke.'
"That’s because there’s much more to wildfire smoke than charred sticks and leaves, especially where these blazes are burning in Canada. The country’s #forests have long been #mined, operations that loaded #soils and #waterways with #ToxicMetals like #lead and #mercury, especially before clean-air standards kicked in 50 years ago. Now everyone downwind of these wildfires may have to contend with that legacy and those pollutants, in addition to all the other nasties inherent in #WildfireSmoke, which are known to exacerbate respiratory and cardiac problems.
" 'You have there the burning of these organic soils resulting in a lot of carbon and a lot of #ParticulateMatter,' said Waddington. 'Now you have this triple whammy, where you have the metals #remobilized in addition to that.'
"What exactly is lurking in the smoke from Canadian wildfires will require further testing by scientists. But an area of particular concern is around the mining city of #FlinFlon, in #ManitobaCanada, which is known to have elevated levels of toxic metals in the landscape, said Colin McCarter, an environmental scientist who studies pollutants at Ontario’s #NipissingUniversity. Flin Flon’s 5,000 residents have been evacuated as a wildfire approaches, though so far no structures have been destroyed.
"But a fire doesn’t need to directly burn mining operations to mobilize toxicants. For example, in #Yellowknife, in Canada’s #NorthwestTerritories, #GoldMining operations between 1934 and 2004 spread #arsenic as far as 18 miles away, adding to a landscape with an already high concentration of naturally occurring arsenic. In a paper published last year, Waddington and McCarter estimated that between 1972 and 2023, wildfires around Yellowknife fired up to 840,000 pounds of arsenic into the atmosphere. Arsenic is a known carcinogen associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and developmental problems, according to the World Health Organization. (After the 2023 #LahainaFire in Maui, officials reported elevated levels of arsenic, lead, and other toxic substances in ash samples. California officials also found lots of lead in smoke from 2018’s #CampFire.)"
Source:
https://grist.org/climate/canada-wildfire-smoke-toxic-arsenic/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us#WaterIsLife #SoilIsLife #AirIsLife #Mining #ToxicLegacy #FirstNations #Canada #Pollution #Worldwide #AQI #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #AirQualityIndex
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Not just human health! The #Toxic Blend of LA’s Urban #WildfireSmoke Will Have Lasting Health Consequences
Los Angeles residents are breathing bits of "cars, metal pipes, plastics."
By Zoya Teirstein, January 22, 2025“These fires are different from previous quote-unquote ‘wildfires,’ because there are so many structures that burned,” said Yifang Zhu, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. 'Everything in the households got burned — cars, metal pipes, plastics.'
"#Wildfiresmoke is toxic. Burning trees and shrubs produce very fine #particulatematter, known by the shorthand PM 2.5, which burrow deep into the lungs and can even infiltrate the bloodstream, causing cold- and flu-like symptoms in the short term, and heart disease, lung cancer, and other chronic issues over time.
"But the fires that raced through Los Angeles burned thousands of homes, schools, historic buildings, and even medical clinics, blanketing the city in thick smoke. For several days after the first fire started, the city’s air quality index, or #AQI, exceeded 100, the threshold, typically seen during wildfires, at which air becomes unhealthy to breathe for children, the elderly, and those with asthma. In some parts of the city, the AQI reached 500, a number rarely seen and always hazardous for everyone.
"At the moment, air pollution experts know how much smoke fills the air. That’s shown improvement in recent days. But they don’t know what’s in it. 'What are the chemical mixtures in this smoke?' asked Kai Chen, an environmental scientist at the Yale School of Public Health. 'In addition to fine particulate matter, there are potentially other hazardous and #carcinogenic organic compounds — gas pollutants, trace metals, and microplastics.'
"Previous research shows that the spikes in unhealthy air quality seen during such events lead to higher rates of hospitalizations for issues like asthma, and even contribute to heart attacks among those with that chronic disease. A 2024 study on the long-term effects of smoke exposure in California showed that particulate matter from wildfires in the state from 2008 to 2018 contributed to anywhere from 52,000 to 56,000 premature deaths. A health assessment of 148 firefighters who worked the Tubbs Fire, which burned more than 36,000 acres in Northern California in 2017 and destroyed an unusually high number of structures, found elevated levels of the #PFAS known as forever chemicals, #HeavyMetals, and flame retardants in their blood and urine.
"The L.A. County Department of Public Health has formally urged people to stay inside and wear masks to protect themselves from windblown toxic dust and ash. Air quality measurements don’t take these particles into account, which means the air quality index doesn’t reveal the extent of contaminants in the air.
"Zhu and her colleagues have been collecting samples of wildfire smoke in neighborhoods near the fires. It’ll be months before that data is fully analyzed, but Zhu suspects she will find a dangerous mix of chemicals, including, potentially, #asbestos and lead — materials used in many buildings constructed before the 1970s.
"The risk will linger even after the smoke clears. The plumes that wafted over the landscape will deposit chemicals into drinking #water supplies and #contaminate# soil. When rains do come, they’ll wash #ToxicAsh into streams and across the land, said Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, an environmental engineer and interim dean of the University of Colorado Boulder environmental engineering program. 'There’s a lot of manmade materials that are now being combusted. The potential is there for contamination,' he said, noting that little research on how toxic ash and other byproducts of wildfires in urban areas currently exists. 'What we don’t have a lot of information on is what happens now.'
"After the Camp Fire razed Paradise, California, in 2018, water utilities found high levels of volatile organic compounds [#VOCs] in #DrinkingWater. Similar issues have arisen in places like Boulder County, Colorado, where the Marshall Fire destroyed nearly 1,000 structures in 2021, Rosario-Ortiz said, though the presence of a contaminant in a home doesn’t necessarily mean it will be present in high levels in the water. Still, several municipal water agencies in Los Angeles issued preemptive advisories urging residents not to drink tap water in neighborhoods near the Palisades and Eaton fires. It’ll be weeks before they know exactly what’s in the water.
"As wildfires grow ever more intense and encroach upon urban areas, cities and counties must be prepared to monitor the health impacts and respond to them. 'This is the first time I’ve ever even witnessed or heard anything like this,' said Zhu, who raised her daughter in Los Angeles and has lived there for decades, said. 'Even being in the field studying wildfires and air quality impacts, I never imagined that a whole neighborhood, a whole community in Palisades, would burn down.'"
Read more:
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-toxic-blend-of-las-urban-wildfire-smoke-will-have-lasting-health-consequences/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=flipboard_rss&utm_campaign=znetwork
#AirPollution #WaterPollution #AirIsLife #WaterIsLife #ToxicMaterials #EnvironmentalDisaster #EnvironmentalDamage #Pyrocene #PyroceneEra -
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https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/nd_winter_rains_still_pollution_high
#delhi #newdelhi #india #news #press #weather #climate #rains #rain #winter #pollution #AirQuality #AQI #AirPollution
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Der #Großbrand in der Nachbargemeinde, wegen welchem sogar eine NINA-Warnung ausgelöst wurde ("Fenster und Türen geschlossen halten") hat nichtmal im Ansatz die üblichen #Feinstaub|werte der winterlichen Heizsaison mit der #Luftbelastung durch Holz-/Pelletöfen (oft 2-4x so hoch) erreicht!
#OfenAus #Holzverbrennung #PM25 #PM10 #Luftverschmutzung #AQI
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Holy air quality, Batman... near Philadelphia. 381 PM2.5 #AQI. N95 mask, folks, that stuff is not good for you. #smoke #PAwx #Philadephia https://map.purpleair.com/1/mAQI/a10/p604800/cC0?select=169591#8.01/39.832/-75.585