Really? Most polluted in the world? Drama queen. Ottawa was showing over 400 on the EPA map and I’ll bet 200 would be a record clean-air day for New Delhi, Islamabad, Mexico City or Beijing.
“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.