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TedBundysVlkswagon t1_j8webhu wrote

Has everyone seen the latest air quality map?

https://gispub.epa.gov/airnow/?showgreencontours=false&xmin=-8585636.091631025&xmax=-7572998.34090928&ymin=4365800.983630153&ymax=5870081.700282021

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NoHopeOnlyDeath t1_j8x4ycn wrote

The fact that this doesn't show any air quality disturbance from a burning chrmical train derailment in Ohio is........concerning.

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greentintedlenses t1_j8xwg1d wrote

There's a post from a NH meteorologist from a few days ago in this sub stating it won't reach us up here

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_Why_Not_Today_ t1_j8ygclr wrote

It’s there now - big yellow dot - and headed straight for NYC!

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EggsAndBeerKegs t1_j8wz06h wrote

The fuck is going on in Idaho 🙁

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Imaginavigator7 t1_j8x3uvt wrote

It has to do with the mountains! Poor air quality is pretty common over there and sometimes bad air gets trapped. I think it's called inversion or something like that.

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Curious_Buffalo_1206 t1_j8x4vc6 wrote

Yeah, all the car exhaust and wood stove smoke gets trapped by the inversion and chokes everyone out. It blows. It’s why SLC has some of the worst air quality in the country. The lake is forecast to be gone in less than five years because the morons keep growing alfalfa for export in the desert, and when that happens, it’ll be the worst in the world. It’s another Aral Sea disaster happening in real time before our eyes, but capitalism will get the new record time.

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victoriaa- t1_j8ya5q4 wrote

The receding lake is its own environmental disaster, both the toxins are being concentrated as water evaporates as well as the dust plumes

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PissTapeExpert t1_j8xzsqc wrote

Same shit happened to me when we moved to the mountains in Arizona. I thought it would be like my home state of Oregon lots of trees clean air, but the traffic from Phoenicians coming to see snow and our woodstoves made the air quality worse than Phoenix.

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victoriaa- t1_j8ya2dq wrote

I get inversions where I live and the air quality still isn’t that bad. It looks like it starts at salt lake, I wonder if this is from the receding shore line and the toxic dust

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longshlongsilverz t1_j8x0r0z wrote

I would normally say fires, but I don’t think that could be the case with all the snowfall they’ve gotten and the temps

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LassieMcToodles t1_j8xldil wrote

I know; I've been watching the purpleair site the past few days and the quality in California City, CA has been consistently at 910 and I've googled what on earth goes on in that town and haven't been able to find any answers.

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victoriaa- t1_j8yawb3 wrote

They are not far from the Aliso canyon oil field

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LassieMcToodles t1_j8ylms4 wrote

I just looked it up and they aren't but Santa Clarita and Lancaster are closer and their numbers have always been nice and green. Maybe just the way the wind blows and settles?

I need to get off that site; it's not good for my head.

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victoriaa- t1_j8yviq7 wrote

The world is so fucked, I want to be aware but I have no idea how to combat this

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LassieMcToodles t1_j8zj01d wrote

It's so depressing. There are about 1,000 things to be upset about just from the East Palestine situation alone.

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victoriaa- t1_j8zjibc wrote

Not to mention entire towns have been poisoned before, this will keep happening

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kitsciencekat t1_j8xtqi5 wrote

This map only shows fine particulate matter and ozone… it will not show anything related to toxic chemicals, and more specifically those released by the controlled burn in OH.

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victoriaa- t1_j8y9x2u wrote

It looks like air quality starts getting bad north of Salt Lake City into Idaho, I wonder if this is from the receding lake bed in salt lake spreading pollutants. I can’t believe there is nothing near Ohio…

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