@soulcompromise for you today: TODAY: UNHEALTHY Children, older adults, and those with respiratory issues should reduce prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion. AQI: 160 DOMINANT POLLUTANT: PM2.5 Tiny particles called PM2.5 irritate the eyes, nose, and respiratory system. Long-term exposure aggravates heart and lung disease. AQI Source: Contains Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information 2020 and/or modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information 2020
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Looks like the rain we were hoping for isn't coming today, it's not expected until Thursday. I need to rant. I sure am tired of this shit. I retired at the end of January, and being retired, finding enough to do is already a challenge. Then the pandemic hit, taking away some of the things I was doing to keep occupied. Now with all this smoke I can only spend a limited amount of time outdoors, even with a mask on. I get stir crazy after a while sitting at home and end up at a local bar drinking. This smoke is bad for my health in more than one way, I can't exercise outdoors and wind up eating too much and getting high and drunk to fight the boredom. What keeps me going is knowing this is a temporary thing, and I wonder how people can live in places where the air quality is always bad.
@newo I feel your pain. It's not good to be breathing that smokey air. Wish the rains would come soon, and put out this fire. And I hope you get back to enjoying your retirement. I am sure you worked long and hard for that. Peace...
It was really hazy out here in North Dakota yesterday and you could get a whiff of smoke at times even from those fires.
The smoke plumes and CO, CO2, SO etc are reaching all the way to Holland, and south to Cabo in Baja California Sur. This makes the Yellowstone fires of 1988 look like a campfire. They only burned 1 million acres.
Not to worry as global warming and crickets rubbing their legs together are setting fires. Oregun is terrible as you cant see the sun
Today the Washington Post reports: California's fires are putting a huge amount of carbon dioxide into the air California’s unprecedented wildfires, driven by man-made climate change, are pumping the atmosphere with tens of millions of tons of carbon dioxide that will only drive global temperatures higher. Two scientists estimate separately for The Energy 202 that the fires in California this year through mid-September burned enough forest to put about 90 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, the most important greenhouse gas, into the air. For perspective, that's some 30 million tons more than the total CO2 emissions from providing power to the entire state. “Given that 2020 is really a record-setting year for California, it’s going to be quite off-the-charts compared to the observational period we have,” said Niels Andela, an atmospheric scientist at Cardiff University in Wales, stressing that his estimate of 91.2 million tons is preliminary given the limited data he has. “That would be my expectation.”
In another report from the Post: As wildfire smoke becomes a part of life on the West Coast, so do its health risks Wildfires raging in California, Oregon and Washington have led to some of the worst air quality in the world SAN FRANCISCO — Every morning for the past few weeks, JoEllen Depakakibo has had a new kind of morning routine. She sets her alarm for 6 and opens the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow site on her phone. Newly fluent in the numbers of the air quality indexes, or the AQI, she checks the pollution levels compulsively throughout the day, waiting to make a difficult decision. If the number passes 150, called “unhealthy” by the EPA, Depakakibo has her employees shut the main door and turn on a medical-grade air purifier inside Pinhole Coffee Shop, the cafe she opened here six years ago. If it passes 200, they close the cafe. She’s had to shut five times in recent weeks because of the smoke that has stubbornly settled over the city. “I always check in with my staff to make sure they feel good about coming in. If they say they don’t, we won’t open,” Depakakibo said from her home in Oakland, where she and her wife had the windows closed and two air filters running to protect their newborn baby.
The rain finally arrived, started with a thunderstorm early this morning and we've had showers on and off since then and it's supposed to continue until tomorrow morning. Just went outside, the air quality is better but there's still a faint smell of smoke, a combination of smoke and humidity, so I'm still wearing the mask outdoors. Hope the areas still burning get enough of this rain so the fires can be brought under control. So conditions are improving but we still have a way to go.
The sky is still overcast but not with smoke. The rain has stopped, supposed to get more later this week. No word yet on how the rain has affected the wildfires. But damn it's great to be able to go outside without a mask! The air smells fresh. That's one crisis over, 5 or 6 more to go.