zalasur, 11 months ago

I'm glad I picked this up last week (thanks to @ai6yr for the idea). I found out about the air quality issue this morning before my phone's weather app did.

zalasur, 11 months ago

@ai6yr Oof, that escalated dramatically. Just in the past 10 minutes it's spiked from 40 to 70.

zalasur, 11 months ago

We are now at 76. I'm beginning to think maybe an air filter might be a good investment.

zalasur, 11 months ago

Hooooo 😮

zalasur, 11 months ago

And based on the maps and where the wind is blowing, we haven't seen the last of this yet

zalasur, 11 months ago

We've now entered "Poor" air quality territory

zalasur, 11 months ago

It seems to have leveled off. I'm researching some good air purifiers to buy, including the DIY Corsi-Rosenthal cube. Technically the air inside the house is still better than outside which is hovering at around 200 right now.

zalasur, 11 months ago

Still slowly climbing. This will probably be the peak.

zalasur, 11 months ago

DAMMIT

zalasur, 11 months ago

Looks like we broke all records for worst air quality in recorded history: https://kstp.com/kstp-news/local-news/canadian-wildfire-smoke-causes-worst-ever-air-quality-in-twin-cities/

zalasur, 11 months ago

Easing back down again

zalasur, 11 months ago

And we made it back to the "Good" range

ai6yr, 11 months ago

@zalasur Hmm, my lungs hurt just looking at that. PM2.5 at 3.4 here, AQI of 14. It was at 5 AQI all day, but remnants of dinner are still wafting around here.

zalasur, 11 months ago

@ai6yr Normally we hover around that range unless it's rush hour, then it can get into the 20-30 range because we're in a large metro area with a ton of (sub)urban sprawl. It's not bothering me too much right now though I have a bit of a headache. I went ahead and decided to skip my usual exercises this evening.