Blame Canada!

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,101]

For shit air quality. Cross posted from Tell me about NYC.  This is down at street level.  The street lights on my street are hazy. The smoke smell is incredibly strong.  These fires are hundreds of miles from here.  It's nuts.

Edited June 7, 2023 by PenelopeWitherspoon

[Telegraph_it 3,357]

Nice try. That’s Beijing. 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,101]

6 minutes ago, Telegraph_it said:

Nice try. That’s Beijing. 

You serious, Clark?

[Telegraph_it 3,357]

1 minute ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

You serious, Clark?

The skyline looks like NYC. But the sky pollution reminds me of my last two visits to Beijing. Maybe the Chinese developed a copy of Manhattan like they did for Paris. 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,101]

2 minutes ago, Telegraph_it said:

The skyline looks like NYC. But the sky pollution reminds me of my last two visits to Beijing. Maybe the Chinese developed a copy of Manhattan like they did for Paris. 

So, massive wildfires in Nova Scotia and Quebec = poor air quality in NYC that out it in the top 10 worst cities for air quality briefly.  NYC is rarely in the top 3000 cities for worst air quality.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/06/06/us/canada-wildfires-smoke-air-quality

 

[Telegraph_it 3,357]

Yea looks not great. Something I hope not to see out west this summer. 
 

[Reynolds Woodcock 4,740]

I picked a great day to walk home from work!

[mchookem 16,336]

ha! this was Denver about two weeks ago from fires in Alberta, including the 'top three worst cities in the world' air quality for a few days!

 

ETA story https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/denver-worst-air-quality-wildfire-smoke-canada/

Edited June 7, 2023 by mchookem

[lemonlime 5,503]

My place smells like I had a campfire in the middle of it.

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,817]

ha! this was Denver about two weeks ago from fires in Alberta, including the 'top three worst cities in the world' air quality for a few days!

 
ETA story https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/denver-worst-air-quality-wildfire-smoke-canada/

We were breathing this in Minnesota too a few weeks ago. Although it wasn’t as thick as the photos in NYC.


Get your shit together Canada.

[RPM 26,321]

Reminds me of Colorado a couple years ago.

[deadshank 24,653]

Sitting pretty and enjoying the alpine air wafting cool off the glaciers here in Houston.   

[Bevo 13,577]

This sounds like a Dutch thing.

[SquishMitten 10,408]

Somebody forget to rake Canada?

[Judge Roybeanbag 11,819]

11 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

Somebody forget to rake Canada?

Fried beaver tail is delicious.  

[tx ind 7,013]

Can confirm, flew into EWR yesterday. Hazy and smells like a campfire in NJ.

[Left Coast 863]

Yeah I picked a shitty week to come to NYC. Being from LA, I’m very aware of what wildfires smell like, and it definitely has that smell. Before we landed I told my colleague that I had experienced every type of weather in my visits to New York. I was wrong, definitely wasn’t expecting this!

 

(NYC is still amazing tho)

[Bateshorn 9,927]

Terrible in DC.

Biden needs to get on the horn and let the 51st state know what’s up.

[YGIFS 19,450]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing Canadian glue.  

[BERT 4,358]

Great, now I have that South Park song stuck in my head because of the title of this thread. Thanks a lot!!

[Biff Tannen 45,688]

2 hours ago, Bateshorn said:

Terrible in DC.

Biden needs to get on the horn and let the 51st state know what’s up.

America's Hat

[Captain Ron 12,876]

AQ is shit here around Boston. I don't have a view of the city at my office, but the sky looks pretty similar to OP's. Fucking Canada. They are recommending N95s when outside.

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,101]

[HenryJames 66,057]

[lemonlime 5,503]

I live a few miles outside nyc. The view of the Manhattan skyline today.

[UpperWestside 6,166]

I texted my brother and told him it reminded me of when we’d be burning leaves and wood every spring to clean up the land we grew up on in Texas.

[Orange&White 5,528]

Got this from my son about 2 hours ago.

[Reynolds Woodcock 4,740]

A beautiful 75 degree day outside of my office today.

 

[We’reTexas 1,473]

N-95s when outside are helpful. I’d just stay in my office all day since I imagine that’s where the best air filtering is. Fire season sucks and they are only getting worse. 

[MNLonghornFUKM 8,817]

A beautiful 75 degree day outside of my office today.
 

Wow.

[Fudge Nuggets 19,190]

6 hours ago, tx ind said:

Can confirm, flew into EWR yesterday. Hazy and smells like a campfire in NJ.

Better than the usual smell of raw sewage and despair.

[bolverk 29,679]

4 hours ago, BERT said:

Great, now I have that South Park song stuck in my head because of the title of this thread. Thanks a lot!!

Don't blame Penelope; blame Canada.

[Biff Tannen 45,688]

9 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Better than the usual smell of raw sewage and despair.

Yep

[Shaggy3.0 1,695]

Better thread title: What the fuck is wrong with you, Canada?

 

[Captain Ron 12,876]

8 minutes ago, Shaggy3.0 said:

Better thread title: What the fuck is wrong with you, Canada?

 

  But we already wrote this song and did a matching dance number 

 

Edited June 7, 2023 by Captain Ron

[Nuge 1,970]

It hasn't rained up here in the PNW since mid-May.  Fire season is going to be a bitch this year.

[royiv 9,319]

How much longer is this supposed to linger? Scheduled to fly into LGA tomorrow. Just checked United and the same flight I'm supposed to be on tomorrow was canceled today due to the FAA ground stop at LGA.

[cactusflinthead 27,598]

 

[Bevo 13,577]

NYC is pretty far from that stuff. I assume it is much worse in Syracuse and Ottawa and the Adirondacks. I guess those places are too hard to get pictures from.

[Michael Knight 12,980]

 

[OU Sucks 8,821]

3 minutes ago, Bevo said:

NYC is pretty far from that stuff. I assume it is much worse in Syracuse and Ottawa and the Adirondacks. I guess those places are too hard to get pictures from.

The distance from the fires doesn't seem to matter all that much...it's just moving in bands:

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

23 minutes ago, royiv said:

How much longer is this supposed to linger? Scheduled to fly into LGA tomorrow. Just checked United and the same flight I'm supposed to be on tomorrow was canceled today due to the FAA ground stop at LGA.

It's supposed to be around tomorrow (see above link)...maybe not quite as bad, though.

[UpperWestside 6,166]

I got off the train in Amityville an hour ago and the air quality here is better, mainly because there is some circulation happening on the south shore. The city lends itself to air stagnating. I looked at the air quality index numbers and it is 231 here and it was 327 in Manhattan. Neither seem awesome obviously, but this is a little more breathable.

[achooloco 1,072]

Can confirm it was crazy orange in queens. Better now but earlier was just nuts. Very Martian/total recall feel to everything 

['stache 21,816]

7 hours ago, BERT said:

Great, now I have that South Park song stuck in my head because of the title of this thread. Thanks a lot!!

Yup, stuck in my head now, lol. I've been getting air quality alerts here in Tulsa the last two days, is it really having an affect this far south? Or is something else going on here?

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,101]

1 hour ago, royiv said:

How much longer is this supposed to linger? Scheduled to fly into LGA tomorrow. Just checked United and the same flight I'm supposed to be on tomorrow was canceled today due to the FAA ground stop at LGA.

My flight out of JFK was cancelled.  My flight was the ONLY BA flight to London cancelled (one other was cancelled yesterday...the 9:30 PM one), so I tend to think it is just BA fuckup rather than weather.  

It is supposed to continue until at least tonight.  There is a weather system sitting there pushing all this down.  The fires are at least 500 miles away from NYC.

[RollLeft 5,045]

I've been in Canadian wine country off of Lake Erie for a week and it's all clear here.  Clear skies, perfect weather and feeling good, Billy Ray!

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19,101]

10 minutes ago, achooloco said:

Can confirm it was crazy orange in queens. Better now but earlier was just nuts. Very Martian/total recall feel to everything 

It got crazy looking out of my windows around 1:30 or 2 here in Sutton Place.  It is MUCH better looking outside now.  

 

Edited June 7, 2023 by PenelopeWitherspoon

[Armybrat 40,849]

18 hours ago, Telegraph_it said:

Yea looks not great. Something I hope not to see out west this summer. 
 

A friend just moved from the Reno area to Prescott, Arizona to escape the annual smoke pollution drifting over from the California forest fires.

[The Dog 44,053]

 

[YChang 3,446]

Reminds me of the bay area a few years back when they had all the wild fires raging. Felt like I was walking around on another planet in a sci-fi movie. 

Edited June 7, 2023 by YChang