Air Quality Warning

[BlueRidge]

DC is currently beyond code red in code purple, very unhealthy.

 

[annie720]

Aqi is currently 369 in SE PA. Hazardous.

 

[Sarah]

The air in SE PA is awful right now. My lungs are on fire despite wearing a mask when I'm outside (I feel far better with a KN95 when the 5 minutes I walked outside without one...). Current conditions on the weather app have changed from haze to smoke. So that's fun. Anyway, just trying to make it through this while keeping my asthma under control. I know it's way worse elsewhere too.

 

[BlueRidge]

The region from DC to Philly is in the maroon hazardous range now.

I walked my dog but kept it to 15 minutes and wore a mask. Its very hazy.

 

[MLIS]

Blue skies and air quality indicator of 1-2 (very good) in Ottawa today. They are warning that we may see a return of the smoke over the weekend, so intend to enjoy this while I can!!!

 

[quartz]

We’ve lost our little pocket of better air. Yesterday we were in the low-moderate risk, and today and tomorrow moving into high risk. The sky is hazy, still a bit of blue, but I can’t smell any smoke. Our public health website states that N95 type masks are not the best way to protect yourself while outdoors, and may give you a false sense of security. But then they don’t explain what would be a better alternative.

 

[kedrin]

We're much clearer today than yesterday. Still hazy, but it's a sunny haze, instead of an apocalyptic haze.

 

[Vagabond]

We’ve lost our little pocket of better air. Yesterday we were in the low-moderate risk, and today and tomorrow moving into high risk. The sky is hazy, still a bit of blue, but I can’t smell any smoke. Our public health website states that N95 type masks are not the best way to protect yourself while outdoors, and may give you a false sense of security. But then they don’t explain what would be a better alternative.

N95 masks don't protect against gases and vapors, which is why governments issued gas masks to essential personnel working outdoors during the 2020 California wildfire event. Good luck getting one today in one of your local stores.

 

[BlueRidge]

N95 masks protect against particulate matter which is a big aspect of the problem with smoke.

Approved Particulate Filtering Facepiece Respirators | NPPTL | NIOSH | CDC

A listing of NIOSH-Approved Particulate Filtering Facepiece Respirators that health care workers can use to help protect themselves from diseases potentially spread through the air such as SARS or Tuberculosis.

www.cdc.gov

 

[screech]

The temperatures in Ontario have cooled a bit in some areas, and rain is in the forecast on and off over the next week or so. I'm not sure how much is expected, or how much of an effect it will have, but it's something at least!

 

[Private Citizen]

The cat is howling to go out on the balcony. Try explaining why not….

It smells like smoke and it kills your eyes in a minute or two.

Just a reminder that if you're smoking more than five cigarettes, you're doing the equivalent of this weather to your lungs on a daily basis....

 

[once_upon]

I can't imagine how the continued Albuterol solution shortage is going to affect the healthcare system, which will be flooded with patients experiencing breathing difficulties.

It's real this shortage

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/health/albuterol-shortage/index.html

 

[Andora]

The temperatures in Ontario have cooled a bit in some areas, and rain is in the forecast on and off over the next week or so. I'm not sure how much is expected, or how much of an effect it will have, but it's something at least!

It's positively fresh outside.

Still a fair bit hazy over the trees, but fresh.

 

[Debbie S]

Visible haze even at ground level here. I'm inside but can smell it....smells like a campfire/marshmallow roasting. I don't have the a/c on (don't need it) so i'm thinking that lowers the outside air coming in?

We don't have orange skies but now they're saying it could be bad tomorrow.

 

[quartz]

N95 masks don't protect against gases and vapors, which is why governments issued gas masks to essential personnel working outdoors during the 2020 California wildfire event. Good luck getting one today in one of your local stores.

We still have patches of blue sky and the sun is peeking out every now and then, and our windows are all open too. I had no plans of trying to get a mask of any sort. I do need to take allergy pill, however - the pollen is still non-stop!

 

[Badams]

We are in the yellow today. Actually right on the line between yellow and orange. Yesterday at this time we were in the purple. the air is so much cleaner today than it was yesterday. It's also incredibly cloudy and unseasonably cold at a whopping 61 degrees. Hopefully it rains. At least the sky is normal colored and not orange anymore.

 

[skategal]

Something more about how could wildfires in Canada travel all the way to NY? Yeah.

That’s a good way to know who has never seen a map of North America before.

NY literally shares a border with Canada.

 

[VICK B.]

Air Quality Index (AQI) at one point hit 484.. very hazardous in New York City...


Source CTV MONTREAL NOON NEWS (TV) ...

Please wear a mask.

 

[quartz]

Our index has just been updated and my area is back down to a moderate rating.

 

[Badams]

That’s a good way to know who has never seen a map of North America before.

NY literally shares a border with Canada.

Seriously. I have been to Canada more than any state other than NY in my life. It's like 60 miles away from my house.

 

[Jenny]

* waves across lake to New Yorkers *

 

[Andora]

Lead singer of the Goo Goo Dolls once called Toronto "Buffalo's Manhattan."

(Doesn't make the 9ish-hour drive to NYC shorter, mind you)

 

[Sparks]

Fox guest: There's just no health risk...We have this kind of air in India and China all the time, no public health emergency... this doesn't kill anybody, this doesn't make anybody cough, this is not a health event... particulate matter is just very fine soot, they're innocuous.

https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1666791080258334723

This is insanity

 

[BlueRidge]

Fox guest: There's just no health risk...We have this kind of air in India and China all the time, no public health emergency... this doesn't kill anybody, this doesn't make anybody cough, this is not a health event... particulate matter is just very fine soot, they're innocuous.

https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1666791080258334723

This is insanity

Either profound ignorance or counting on profound ignorance in the audience.

Pollution led to more than 2.3 million premature deaths in India in 2019, according to a new Lancet study.
Nearly 1.6 million deaths were due to air pollution alone, and more than 500,000 were caused by water pollution.
The latest Lancet Commission on pollution and health report blamed pollution for nine million - or about one in six - deaths globally.
It said India - where bad air kills more than a million people every year - remained among the worst affected.

Lancet study: Pollution killed 2.3 million Indians in 2019

The report found that nearly 1.6 million deaths in India were due to air pollution alone.

www.bbc.com

There is really no excuse for anyone spreading this kind of dangerous nonsense.

 

[quartz]

We have thunderstorms in the forecast - yes, we sure could use the rain, but certainly not the lightning!

 

[VALuvsMKwan]

Outdoor production here tonight of The School of Lies (modernized translation of Moliere's Le Misanthrope) has been cancelled.

 

[Prancer]

A friend of mine is going to NYC for the first time today.

His timing is terrible.

 

[Vagabond]

Fox guest: There's just no health risk...We have this kind of air in India and China all the time, no public health emergency... this doesn't kill anybody, this doesn't make anybody cough, this is not a health event... particulate matter is just very fine soot, they're innocuous.

https://twitter.com/MattGertz/status/1666791080258334723

This is insanity

George Orwell could not have written the dialogue any better for one of his characters if he had tried.

The insanity isn't just that anyone would say this but also that Fox News would give such a person a platform.

 

[Judy]

It's positively fresh outside.

Still a fair bit hazy over the trees, but fresh.

Things we take for granted right?

 

[Judy]

N95 masks protect against particulate matter which is a big aspect of the problem with smoke.

Approved Particulate Filtering Facepiece Respirators | NPPTL | NIOSH | CDC

A listing of NIOSH-Approved Particulate Filtering Facepiece Respirators that health care workers can use to help protect themselves from diseases potentially spread through the air such as SARS or Tuberculosis.

www.cdc.gov

That’s what I had read. it’s not like sitting beside a bonfire/camp fire. Wild fires are very different unfortunately.