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My cousin lives adjacent to NYC and sent this picture or air "quality" in Brooklyn yesterday for those of you who haven't seen what the wildfires in Canada are producing for the eastern areas.

 

I was in Whistler in 2018 when that monster fire erupted in Redding. They were talking about closing I-5 due to low visibility so I cancelled my scheduled stop to ride in Ashland and kept driving to get through that area. It was about 1:30 in the afternoon when I hit the area around Weed (north of Redding) and it was so dark my headlights kicked on. They didn't go back off until I was about 15 miles north of Sacramento. It was crazy weird going through Redding itself.

 

We've seen it like that here far more times then they have there.

 

That seems to be the consensus on social media that I have seen.
I'm not sure that I've seen impacts like that from 300 miles away though.

 

My mom's AQI on the other end of the state is usually in the single digits. They were close to 200 yesterday... When I pulled up the Purple Air map, NYC was mostly in the 300-400 range, as was the entire east coast of Pennsylvania.

Those folks ain't used to that... At all.

 

The picture in the title post could have been mistaken for the Los Angeles basin, August 1965. Trust me. I was there.

And it wasn't wildfire smoke.

 

You're old!

 

I was in Houston, fires in the Yucatan, air was smokier and with the smell of so cal in October. It went on for weeks
But it must be climate change.
Happy sheep being lead by wolves

 

That fire started on the opposite side of the wife's grand parents home. They called it the Bel Air fire. the second Canyon east of the 405 in Sherman Oaks

 

I was wondering when someone was going to mention climate change.

 

I believe it was like that until and maybe through the 70s into the 80s.

I hate to say this for fear of being skewered by the anti-gov people on this forum - strict regulations saved the air and water in CA. My wife didn't know there were mountains, and she cleaned tarballs off her feet after getting out of the water in the late 70s.

 

Good point, fire is so far away.

 

I thought I heard yesterday NYC was above 450.

 

Yep, remember it too.
Couldn't see mt baldy and I lived a mile from it. But I could taste and feel the air so there was that, and as u know it was not smoke from a fire.

 

When I was little, we were advised to not eat any fish from Lake Erie. The 2nd smallest Great Lake... With a longer shoreline than the state of CA. I also thought purple sand oozing oil and chemicals was normal... The good old days!

Then there's the whole Love Canal thing... And smaller, but much closer to me personally, was the Wide Beach Superfund site. Nothing like seeing guys in hazmat suits scraping off several feet of soil to "bake" it in their on-site plant.

 

Probably was... When I was keeping an eye on the map, it was changing by the hour.

 

You are correct. It lasted, and the fix was strict regulation of tailpipe emissions. Now we have 3 times the cars and you can see the mountains every day, even in summer.

 

Also strict regulations of emissions from industry, yes? Including liquids.

 

I remember riding my stingray to the Newport beach back in the late 60s early 70s . My chest hurt, my lungs burned and my eyes watered. crazy times. Interestingly yesterday was the first time I felt that raspy throat thing in a very long time!