Wildfire 2023

**AK47bp** · 06-07-2023, 09:45 AM

Ugh. Pretty crazy you guys are getting the western style smoke out.

Cool sunsets and sunrises but otherwise sucks balls.

**jackstraw** · 06-07-2023, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by From_the_NEK

The brown dots are 350+ AQI.
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Idk if it's the ocean breeze or what, but we're staying fairly clear. 39 aqi

**From_the_NEK** · 06-07-2023, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by jackstraw

Idk if it's the ocean breeze or what, but we're staying fairly clear. 39 aqi

The cutoff low pressure system that is hanging out over Nova Scotia is pushing maritime air just far enough west to keep most of northern New England (VT, NH, ME) out of the worst smoke. However, that same circulation around the low is also responsible for concentrating the smoke over areas just west of here.

**gravitylover** · 06-07-2023, 12:29 PM

Yeah, places like here

I was seeing numbers around 400-460 here in the Lower Hudson Valley but now it's back to 240 in my 'hood and the 400+ is in NJ. I don't even want to smoke weed

because my throat feels like shit already.

PB · 06-07-2023, 12:57 PM

Upon further review ..... you guys are in big trouble.

Along with the rest of us.

**The SnowShow** · 06-07-2023, 01:08 PM

400+?? Holy fuck

**LongShortLong** · 06-07-2023, 01:32 PM

Use them n95s.

Also MERV-13 airfilters, or HEPA filters for indoors. The cheap hack is a box fan with a MERV13 furnace filter. Aha you say, I'll just put that in my furnace... note that many furnaces are not designed for filters this fine, check before installing.

Good luck and hope the wind changes.

**TBS** · 06-07-2023, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by gravitylover

Yeah, places like here

I was seeing numbers around 400-460 here in the Lower Hudson Valley but now it's back to 240 in my 'hood and the 400+ is in NJ. I don't even want to smoke weed

because my throat feels like shit already.

In 2017 there was a 30k acre fire about two miles from our house. AQI was in the 450 range for days. Kinda looked like this at midday

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Ms TBS said I could trim my weed crop indoors because it smelled better than the indoor air

We regularly get multiple days of 240+ around here

**Timberridge** · 06-07-2023, 02:02 PM

That looks like NY/NJ right now.

Wtf Canada?

**mcski** · 06-07-2023, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by The SnowShow

400+?? Holy fuck

The last fire fuckery in near Tahoe created 650+ days. 400 definitely sucks regardless

**From_the_NEK** · 06-07-2023, 02:12 PM

New high mark that I've found on the map: 529 in Mt Bethel, PA

**bodywhomper** · 06-07-2023, 02:17 PM

Sorry to hear that the AQ is so bad. Amazon used to have corsi rosenthal box kits available. I’m not sure if that’s still the case. They’re cheaper and more effective than many portable HEPA filters.

**The SnowShow** · 06-07-2023, 02:26 PM

View from friend’s work in midtown, no filter:

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**gravitylover** · 06-07-2023, 02:27 PM

NYC is mostly around 400 now with high 400s and even a 508 on the beach on Long Island. As a cloud bank moves in from the north you'd think it would be moving the smoke ahead of and around it but, no. It's capping it and holding it tight to the ground just to my north now, the pics are dark grey with swirly air

**Meadow Skipper** · 06-07-2023, 02:37 PM

Some say “get used to it.”
As Smoke Darkens the Sky, the Future Becomes Clear

**From_the_NEK** · 06-07-2023, 02:52 PM

Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper

Some say “get used to it.”
As Smoke Darkens the Sky, the Future Becomes Clear

Maybe it isn't sea level rise (water) that will make our lives miserable, but rather fire/smoke.

**frorider** · 06-07-2023, 07:54 PM

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**Brownski** · 06-07-2023, 08:21 PM

Yeah, it got pretty bad today.
The Bronx

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Then like an hour later in Yonkers

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**bodywhomper** · 06-07-2023, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by From_the_NEK

Maybe it isn't sea level rise (water) that will make our lives miserable, but rather fire/smoke.

I read today that no major estimate of climate change fiscal costs including the costs of wildlife smoke days.

**BCR** · 06-08-2023, 07:00 AM

Couldn't see foul balls at all when it was still high above the ground Tuesday night, just got lost in the background of the heavy white smoke.

Then it got grim out my midtown office window yesterday.

Much better today...so far.

**JohnF** · 06-08-2023, 07:10 AM

AQI peaked at 460 in CNY yesterday.

**The SnowShow** · 06-08-2023, 07:18 AM

Is it too much to hope that this wakes more and more people up about the need for serious climate change action?

**skaredshtles** · 06-08-2023, 07:24 AM

Originally Posted by The SnowShow

Is it too much to hope that this wakes more and more people up about the need for serious climate change action?

**gravitylover** · 06-08-2023, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by The SnowShow

Is it too much to hope that this wakes more and more people up about the need for serious climate change action?

Good luck with that.

It's better this morning, local numbers are around 160-170 but the damage is done. My throat and eyes feel like shit and this mild nausea sux. Not that I need to go anywhere but at least the airports are open again because the visibility is so much better. Looks like Philly to DC is in the shit today though

**From_the_NEK** · 06-08-2023, 07:52 AM

Originally Posted by gravitylover

Good luck with that.

It's better this morning, local numbers are around 160-170 but the damage is done. My throat and eyes feel like shit and this mild nausea sux. Not that I need to go anywhere but at least the airports are open again because the visibility is so much better. Looks like Philly to DC is in the shit today though

DC area in the 400's this morning. Baltimore and Philly 300's.

There is A LOT of smoke over North America right now.