Posted on 06/07/2023 1:28:50 PM PDT by Morgana
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has urged millions of residents to remain indoors after hazardous smoke from Canadian wildfires bellowed across the border.
Huge swaths of the nation from the Northeast to the Great Lakes are braced for several more days of smog, while Canadian officials continue to grapple with over 400 wildfires.
A thick, nicotine-yellow haze shrouded the famous Big Apple skyline Wednesday as the city became the most polluted in the world, with its Air Quality Index score soaring past 200, which is deemed 'very unhealthy'.
More than a dozen US states and over 100 million people are under air quality alerts, prompting many to start wearing pandemic-era masks.
Health experts warned that breathing the fog can be as damaging as smoking 14 cigarettes a day. Nanoparticles from the smog are so small they can penetrate the lungs and bloodstream, with side effects also including irritation to the eyes and throat as well as breathing problems.
A sheet of smoke from the wildfires first descended on New York on Tuesday before thickening throughout the afternoon, leaving those in Manhattan unable to see the New Jersey skyline across the Hudson River.
As well as sending New Yorkers inside, air quality alerts were also introduced in states including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois, Virginia and the Carolinas, according to the National Weather Service.
In the most recent developments;
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“The city’s air quality index had risen to 353 out of 500 by early afternoon, which is considered “very hazardous” and was the worst recorded since at least the ’80s, he explained.
Around 2:30 p.m., the air quality ranking site IQair.com ranked the city’s air quality index as 80% worse than the second-most polluted major world city, Delhi, India.”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/07/heres-when-you-can-expect-the-severe-wildfire-smoke-to-subside/
“Air pollution was so poor that it nearly topped the entire air quality scale at 484 — resulting in the worst air quality in the city since the 1960s, Mayor Adams said at the evening briefing.”
https://nypost.com/2023/06/07/nyc-air-quality-from-wildfire-smoke-live-updates/
Check out the video on the second link I just posted to you.
The FAA grounded all flights at LaGuardia this afternoon.
The crazy number of fires in Canada may have been set to cause a freakout down here, who knows?
Then again, we’ll be on to another story by next week.
Would I be the first to say this wasn’t by lightning, but due to incendiary agents dropped by a Chinese weather balloon?
It’s not that hard to figure. Has to do with weather air flows:
https://weather.com/news/weather/video/where-wildfire-smoke-is-headed-next-0
Suck that smoke into your filthy lungs you smoke free filthy New York smoke free scum.
Their map shows my area in purple (hazardous), but it's nothing more than a slight fog here, and a slight smell of a wood fire, which we get here from time to time anyway...nothing like they claim the danger is supposed to be on the map.
I should also mention I live in the foothills of the Adirondacks, in the Mohawk Valley where you would think the smoke would settle, and not move away. It isn’t any different than most days here...overcast. We’re finally getting some rain to wash the yellow pollen off the cars. To me, the pollen is worse than the smoke.
More likely set by lightning. Anyway, I’ve been to New Delhi and Beijing and was in LA in the early 70’s, burning eyes and everything. That and NYC still couldn’t come close to how bad it is almost regularly in India and China. In fact, when I went out this morning to go to work, had an immediate flashback of an India trip just from the smell down here in the DC area. Amazing how smells trigger memories.
You’re not here. It is crazy here right now.
And I’ve been in the worst of the smoggy cities in India.
Bring out da white women.
Got Coke? Sheesh.
Meh, a typical day in Whiting, Indiana back in the late 60’s. No biggie.
Why don’t those windmills blow it away?
The wind has been blowing the smoke directly into CT. My eyes have been burning for two days. There is white smoke all over that resembles fog. The wind is suppose to shift tomorrow and send the smoke somewhere else. I hope it’s true.
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