Air quality across the Eastern US & Canada right now
2026-07-16 22:30 UTC
Replies (29)
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@Donkter@lemmy.world 2026-07-16 23:02
Wow! We’re officially the worst air quality in the world right now!
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@LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2026-07-16 23:15
So how long until the boreal forests burn up and this ends?
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@HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 2026-07-16 23:30
Welcome to what the west coast has been dealing with for many years now. There are more important people in the east maybe we’ll start to think about trying to start to take this seriously.
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@Glifted@lemmy.world 2026-07-16 23:57
I live at 590
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@stretch2m@infosec.pub 2026-07-17 00:27
This is fine.
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@chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 00:47
I travelled up to Michigan to visit family and friends for a few weeks, as well as enjoy the lake. Can’t go outside because the air is, according to the news, “the equivalent of smoking 17 cigarettes for every hour you’re outside”. Shits fucked up here right now.
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@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2026-07-17 00:55
The good news is the heat wave in Toronto has ended… things cooled down when the smoke blocked out the sun. On Tuesday I was actually thinking “huh, we haven’t had smoke this year, that’s cool.” Wednesday morning… well shit there it is.
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@superweeniehutjrs@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 00:58
Can people catch explosive diarrhea from this too?.. But really, I’m surprised there’s data on this but not that
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@Signtist@bookwyr.me 2026-07-17 01:04
I love in southern Minnesota and had to drive up to St Paul this morning. Anything more then a few feet away looked like it had a grey filter over it. A block away and it looked like it was shot in black and white.
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@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-07-17 01:44
I swear chicago is at some sort of crux. no matter where the wildfires are we seem to get hit. north, south, east, or west.
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@snoons@piefed.ca 2026-07-17 01:49
There’s also Windy for a more detailed map. Also just a cool website.
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@arctanthrope@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 02:58
when I was a little kid watching LotR for the first time and Boromir described Mordor by saying “the very air you breathe is a poisonous fume” I thought, okay I get what you’re going for, but even for this setting that’s a little over the top melodramatic, dontcha think? now I can’t leave my house because the greed of evil men has literally corrupted the very essence of the Earth and blotted out the Sun
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@jtrek@startrek.website 2026-07-17 01:15
There are people responsible for climate change. We should feed them to the fires. Perhaps it will appease the gods.
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@deacon@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 03:25
500 where I am right now. I didn’t even have a sense of the AQI scale until today, and now it’s quite skewed.
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@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 03:43
I was in NYC today. The visibility is bad, probably down to less than a mile sometimes, but the local airport says it was 2 miles.
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@xylol@leminal.space 2026-07-17 03:48
Reminds me of the videos people made of the smoke in San Francisco in the style of blader runner 2049 during covid times www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_m9TUP_t_Y
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@WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 2026-07-17 04:26
674…is there even air in there?
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@Tronn4@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 04:38
Like someone took a liberal knife and sliced it up
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@GenitalHurricane@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 05:03
This afternoon…
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@razen@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 06:51
What is happening? Arent there air usually very clean?
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@Sarothazrom@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 08:37
don’t worry, USA cut all of the ability for the EPA to do anything, so this will definitely get better.
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@Wren@lemmy.today 2026-07-17 12:01
I woke up thinking the house was on fire, the smell of smoke was so thick. I’m not even in the worst parts.
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@CptOblivius@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 14:46
Last year our area hit 800+. It was surreal. Apocalyptic looking skies.
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@Dvixen@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 14:51
Oof. That’s horrendous. Hoping for a steady nó lightning few days to assist. We had days of 999 (where the scale stopped) during the Australian bushfires in 2019, and anything over 150 was already brutal. Above 300 and you feel like you can chew the air.
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@Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 2026-07-17 16:32
I came back from vacation this week, and it was quite a moment when I saw the sun rising in the morning, through a yellow haze, colored a fluorescent shade of “apocalypse pink.” Very reassuring, very comforting. I should’ve stayed up in the mountains a while longer.
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@peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 2026-07-17 18:05
Definitely isnt a state between Ohio and New Jersey
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@Etterra@discuss.online 2026-07-17 19:31
I went outside yesterday, and suddenly was breathing in burnt Canada. It smelled like burnt plastic TBH, and the sky looked like it was colored movie Mexico. Reminds me of a few years ago when the same thing happened. I hope nobody’s died.
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@durian@slrpnk.net 2026-07-17 22:53
If people are in the affected areas, check out worldwide-maskbloc.org to see if there’s a mask bloc near you! I’m a part of one, and we’ve been giving a lot of masks the last two days. Take care!
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@Nangijala@feddit.dk 2026-07-18 05:55
Bro, wtf… that’s gotta be a typo.