It’s been really hampering my camping efforts the last few years. It’s bullshit.
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Yeah, the PNW has been a horror show the last several summers. In Eugene, at the tail end of the Willamette Valley, 260 is a bad day but in August not bad enough to be brought up in small talk. We were in the 500’s last Tuesday then last Saturday the winds shifted and we has a whole day of clear air with AQI in the teens. I was exhausted from trying to get as mush outside stuff done as possible.
It’s been normal for the last 4 or 5 years and nearly unheard of before that.
Ubermeisters@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 10 months ago
It was bad enough that I gave in and moved away. The smoke is brutal on my asthma.
dulce_3t_decorum_3st@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve experienced 450 in Chiang Mai, Thailand and you could taste the air. It was not pleasant at all.
LiGuangming1981@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Saw 600 in Shanghai a few years ago. It was horrific. Fortunately the Chinese government has made quite a bit of progress in improving air quality in the last decade so such terrible pollution isn’t nearly as common today as it used to be.
Saigonauticon@voltage.vn 10 months ago
Yeah I was pretty impressed by how awful the air was in Beijing some years ago. Glad to hear it’s getting better.
min0nim@aussie.zone 10 months ago
In the 2019 mega-fires, Sydney hit a max of over 2,500.
It can get a lot worse yet…