While monitoring wildfire smoke has become a ritual for people living in the western U.S., it might be time for New Yorkers to familiarize themselves with an air-quality app, too. awalkerinLA writes
Wildfire smoke has traveled to the city from as far as Oregon. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Here’s something that I, an Angeleno, never thought I’d do while visiting New York: When I woke up this morning to the flat light of a post-apocalyptic orange sun bobbing in a putty-colored sky, I fired up the air-quality app that I use at home.
On the air-quality index, the Environmental Protection Agency’s method of reporting airborne pollutants, parts of Manhattan are currently reporting numbers upwards of 175, putting them in the red “unhealthy” zone. Upstate, the air is even worse; parts of Syracuse are showing AQI readings as high as 261, earning them a purple indicator color for “very unhealthy.
While monitoring wildfire smoke has become a ritual for people living in the western U.S., it might be time for New Yorkers to familiarize themselves with one more data set in their daily lives. Although most weather apps now display current AQI, I highly recommend downloading a dedicated air-quality app — some of my California-tested recommendations include AirVisual, AirNow, PurpleAir, and BreezeoMeter — which show current readings as well as forecasts.
Last time New York saw skies like this — which was in late September last year, by the way, just to give you an idea of how much worse this summer is likely to get — the smoke stayed relatively high up in the atmosphere. Today, however, the haze will drop much lower, meaning we at street level are at a much higher risk of inhaling it all. On the bright side, the sunset is likely to be spectacular. Just watch it from inside your apartment.
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