New York City claims the title of having the worst air quality of any city on Earth Wednesday due to smoke from Canadian wildfires.
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I’d like to also suggest the Fire Air Now site for anyone interested in wildfire smoke dispersion: https://fire.airnow.gov/
This is really cool, thanks for sharing. I hadn’t even realized we were in danger until I read this and started looking at the site you linked (I’m in the Detroit area).
It has a mix of data from home sensors that hobbyists put up at their houses and “official” sensors. If you fine tune to your neighborhood you can see precisely what’s happening with the air quality on your block. (If someone has a sensor.). Sometimes you’ll see one weird reading from someone’s sensor being too close to their BBQ, but not often.
A friend of mine volunteered to host a sensor on his roof, which is how I found out about this. There are other apps and sites that use the same data and make it look prettier, but I like the original .gov site just fine.
Amazing site. Thanks!
Well… I guess ill get a supply of Full face masks and filters before this happens where live…
There’s a lot of scenarios where you should wear one, but most people don’t.
Woodworking, metal grinding, painting, anything where dust is involved.
You can get a HEPA replacement for your cabin air filter in your car too.
PurpleAir.com is a great service for either finding / contributing to citizen science driven air quality monitoring