Its just over 100 here. I hadnt heard about this until today and I was out last night trying to figure out what all those flakes in the air were and why nobody was outside lol.
I didn’t see it until I started shining a flashlight beam around. In the beam it looks like it’s snowing. First I thought it was rain or bugs and then idk I guess this is pollen or something, didn’t think twice about it. Just a light snowfall in the summer I guess. It’s ash from the fire. Crazy
Canada doesn’t use AQI in the official sources for some reason. It’s a 1 to 10 system. It’s supposed to be a 9 out of 10 today. Idk how that translates to AQI but it doesn’t sound good. Also, if these ratings are going off stuff like PM2.5, particles smaller than 2.5microns, how do these big flakes of ash factor in
If the AQI is bad, I won’t go outside very much.
I think it’s like a non-smoker smoking a pack of cigarettes if you go outside for a good amount of time when the AQI is really bad.
Or, at least that what it seems like.
(I have smoked very little tobacco in my life.)
You are right. The healthcare experts suggest wearing N95 masks which I have plenty of.
I couldn’t miss Three hikes in a row.Nikko and I took a 1.5 mile mini hike. I Wore a mask.
We saw five other people at the park not wearing a mask. Three other dogs. The average AQI between four websites was 255. Still at the very unhealthy level.
What’s deceiving is that it doesn’t smell like smoke too much like yesterday. But I’m sure there’s bad particles in the air.
I just realized all this yesterday. I remember smelling smoke on Monday and Tuesday where I did my normal three walks, 10 miles per day. I have no idea what the AIQ was those days.
We will most likely skip tonight as it gets worse at night and early in the morning. Tomorrow is supposedly better. I don’t want my buddy to have problems.
Good news is it’s in the low 70s today and again tomorrow. Low humidity. Windows are closed and it’s only 70° inside here on the second floor.
If it was hot and humid and in the 80s and 90s like it usually is , I don’t have a filtration system and a lot of that outside air would be circulated in here if I had the AC on
Currently a bit of a reprieve here in Ottawa (Canada) with AQI back into the teens. However, the PM2.5 was in the high 400s yesterday morning and dropped slowly over the day.
Oh great I’ll be in the eye of that dark purple spot in half an hour. That says 150 AQI here now. But the Canadian site says I’m down to a 5/10. It was 8/10 when AQI was 100? What’s the conversion here
What a mess of a system. And every website has a different number and they can only forecast like 1 hour out tops. Wind changes a little and there goes the forecast.
Also, I don’t know if this is related, but a mourning dove flew right into my house today.
I found the Weather Channel to be the most inaccurate out of the four that I was following. The other three were within 20 or 30 numbers of each other. The WC numbers were consistently 80 to 100 higher. Over the last day since I’ve been tracking it.
One of those I found an app for that I’m using. Called Breezometer. Seems pretty good.
Right now it’s 164. Still in the red. But the Phillies are playing tonight. They were canceled last night along with the New York Yankees game.
So I’m going hiking. I’ll be in a forest with oxygen and trees getting the impurities out of the air. Much better than a ballpark in a major city.
