Our Air Quality has been horrible due to all the wild fires that we have had and continue to have and it's been like that for weeks. Going outside during our Quarantine period is not healthy and we all are anxious for a good rain.
Right now the AQI is 51, but that's not sampled at my home. The scale runs from 0 to 500 (0=Best 500=Worst), with 50 and under being "Good." I don't know why it wouldn't be better than 51, since I don't live near much of anything resembling "developments." Perhaps the cloud cover we have right now is keeping pollutants trapped. The better news is that the UVI Index is 0.
Maine's air quality is the fifth-best in the nation, behind Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, and Oregon. Because our forest management policies aren't as stupid as those in California, we rarely have forest fires, although we have a lot of forests.
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Current Air Quality 19 AQI Excellent The air quality is ideal for most individuals; enjoy your normal outdoor activities. According to Accuweather
"wild fires" ? What is worse ? What is killing Americans (and counting worldwide, 12,000 people every day) ? "But they’re up against an administration that is actively erasing more than 60 years of pollution legislation—and keen on protecting the same industries that once plagued the people of Donora." "A Lancet piece pointed out that there are more than 140,000 new chemicals since 1950, and fewer than half have been tested. That means the U.S. is exposing people to more pollution before it knows what that pollution is comprised of." "The EPA's Lies About Air Pollution Are Killing Americans" "In its latest move to protect industry, the government has ensured that we'll see more deaths from asthma, heart problems and cognitive degeneration." by ....................... "May 21, 2019, 12:18pm" "If they don't know what the pollution is comprised of, how can they test it ? "By 1963, Congress had passed the Clean Air Act. "More than six decades later—despite significant progress—air pollution continues to be a problem, with more than 40 percent of Americans still exposed to unhealthy air. "Now, the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump has decided to pose an arbitrary threshold by which to define unhealthy air in order to protect fossil fuel companies and their unchecked emissions. Given that science has confirmed that no level of polluted air can be healthy, this will not only threaten us now, but for generations to come. ...“The EPA is saying ‘we don’t care about that anymore’.” (as if they ever did) https://www.vice.com/en/article/kzm39e/the-epas-lies-about-air-pollution-are-killing-americans
I don’t think that we ever have good air quality here in Huntsville. The air is always humid, like all air in the south, plus Huntsville is down in a valley (hollow ?), so we have the most impure air. From what I have read, the Indians who lived here didn’t come down into the valley that much because the air was stagnant, even before people lived here. Up at the top of Monte Sano, the air is supposed to be much better. Now that summer is over, at least the humid air is cooler; but it is still like trying to breathe in a heavy fog. When I lived in Idaho, we had wonderful air, unless there was a wildfire. Since fewer people were arsonists back then, we only had the wildfires that were set naturally by lightning storms. I can breathe SO much better when I go “home” to visit my family, and I have a lot more energy out there, too.
FAA calls "10 mile visibility" unlimited; the mountains in the distance from our home are farther away than 10 miles in all four directions, and are always very visible. So I guess we have little air quality concern. Frank
When I first moved to California in the early 1970s, I was in Pasadena, and I couldn't walk outside without feeling like I had to shower and wash my hair from the smog.
I live in petrochemical paradise; I'm sure there are enough hydrocarbons floating around in Houston's air to make us glow in the dark. Not to mention the 20 billion cars on the freeways.