Screenshot taken from PurpleAir. 150 and above is considered unhealthy, 300 and above is considered hazardous.
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- anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish19 days
Canada is burning.
Siberian wildfires would have the same effect in China, but with added industrial pollution.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish19 days
I swear chicago is at some sort of crux. no matter where the wildfires are we seem to get hit. north, south, east, or west.
- 19 days
They dont call it the windy city for nothing, you got all the cross streams.
I came back from vacation this week, and it was quite a moment when I saw the sun rising in the morning, through a yellow haze, colored a fluorescent shade of “apocalypse pink.” Very reassuring, very comforting.
I should’ve stayed up in the mountains a while longer.
- 19 days
The good news is the heat wave in Toronto has ended… things cooled down when the smoke blocked out the sun.
On Tuesday I was actually thinking “huh, we haven’t had smoke this year, that’s cool.” Wednesday morning… well shit there it is.
- 19 days
Reminds me of the videos people made of the smoke in San Francisco in the style of blader runner 2049 during covid times
I travelled up to Michigan to visit family and friends for a few weeks, as well as enjoy the lake. Can’t go outside because the air is, according to the news, “the equivalent of smoking 17 cigarettes for every hour you’re outside”.
Shits fucked up here right now.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish19 days
What’s hilarious is watching people smoke cigarettes in this air.
I was in NYC today. The visibility is bad, probably down to less than a mile sometimes, but the local airport says it was 2 miles.
It was so much worse in the ‘80s in the L.A. basin. This smoke is nasty, but the layer of brown hazmat that laid over Los Angeles was awful.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish19 days
Thats why we wore onions on our belts, but not yellow onions, because of the war…
- 19 days
There are people responsible for climate change. We should feed them to the fires. Perhaps it will appease the gods.
- 16 days
At some point a dust bowl or flood will rip away the topsoil after a fire, and the forest will stop growing back. It’ll just be a barren desert.
Of course then the dust and sand storms can still give you dust pneumonia, silicosis, and lung cancer, but technically that’s not the forests.
- Sarothazrom@lemmy.worldEnglish19 days
don’t worry, USA cut all of the ability for the EPA to do anything, so this will definitely get better.
- 19 days
I cannot stress enough that Canada is a sovereign country and not under the jurisdiction of the EPA.
- Sarothazrom@lemmy.worldEnglish18 days
Oh yeah i know lol, im just bitching that the US has no way to do anything about this.
- SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish19 days
The EPA can’t do anything about Canadian forest fires. Canadian Right wingers have cut firefighting budgets and dropped emissions laws to align with the USA, so this problem, which literally never happened before 5 years ago, will be the new summer experience for North America.
