Smoke from OR and CA fires causing dangerously bad air quality in NEW YORK CITY

[Withywindle]

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[ItsjustMe]

1. OLBERMANN VS...THE NYC WILDFIRE SMOKE

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017668741

[Blues Heron]

2. all the more reason to mask up folks!

[JustAnotherGen]

3. It was so hazy

Driving home today. I work in Secaucus (over the bridge) and live a few miles from the PA border in NJ.

[uberblonde]

5. It's been like this in Philadelphia...

For days. Reminds me of California in the old days.

[jeffreyi]

4. Absolutely crazy.

I am located approximately equidistant between Bootleg and Dixie. The smoke is very dense today. I should probably be wearing a respirator. But NY City? Insane.

[Tracer]

6. The smoke has reached Boston.

Poor air here too.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Really? I didn't go outside today so I didn't notice, but I went out yesterday after work and I

couldn't really tell. Maybe it's because we've had so much rain here lately.

[Auggie]

7. Smoky summers: the new normal

[Brother Buzz]

11. Curiously, this is the first summer in years the Sacramento Valley hasn't been inundated with smoke

But the fire season is still early. Hell, the new normal fire season ends in late December, and resumes in early January.

I'm not kidding myself, and know the smoke will ultimately arrive, but I am am appreciating it absence.

[Blue_playwright]

8. It was hazy here today in Wichita

I wonder if it was less cloudcover and more smoke...

[Golden Raisin]

9. I'm in Manhattan overlooking the Hudson River.

Total hazy/smokey sunset tonight with the sun almost obscured. We are under an "Air Quality Alert" which may explain why my eyes have been stinging all day.

[SouthernIrish]

10. In East Tennessee also.

Not been a good day for asthma sufferers.

[JesterCS]

12. We have the haze here as well,. SW Ohio

Sky looks milky white instead of blue and sun is slightly muted

[nolabear]

14. And yet Western Washington is fine.

[fishwax]

15. the air quality was horrible today -- but it is more likely the wildfires in Manitoba and Ontario

I've lived in this area for about eight years now, and today was definitely the worst haze I remember seeing here.

[Texasgal]

16. Interestingly enough

Texas and southern states are being affected with low air quality from the Sahara sands blowing across the ocean!

Crazy how far these things travel.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Most of the poor air quality in NY & NJ are due to Mid-West power plant emmissions.

[NickB79]

18. Really bad in Minnesota today as well

[niyad]

19. KNR for KO, as always,

KOEB

[roamer65]

20. So how about them Bucks.