South of Indianapolis

  • Monkeys_Racehorse@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m in the same general area, and it’s wild how bad it’s been both today and yesterday. Makes you want to avoid going outside entirely.

    • ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      East Coast is finally getting a taste of what West Coast summers have been like for the past decade(s).

      I wonder if we’d be taking climate change more seriously if it was the other way around; considering there’s 10x as many people on the eastern states/provinces.

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        1 year ago

        Not even… LA smog is around 120 on the AQI, we were seeing levels past 450. My area had a peak of 456. This is far, far worse.

        Western NY for reference.

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          1 year ago

          yea, @conthelibrarian isn’t talking about smog, they’re talking about wildfire smoke. the seattle area was well into the 400’s multiple times over the last 5 years in particular, though i can’t recall or find how high it went.

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          1 year ago

          Actually yes even.

          Up in Canada we also get AQIs in the 300s-400s due to smoke from Cali, or just the general fire season.

          LA /= all of West Coast.