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Post by Origanalist on Aug 4, 2017 6:06:25 GMT -8
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Post by Origanalist on Aug 4, 2017 6:10:17 GMT -8
Giant Canadian Smoke Cloud Covers Puget Sound: NASA Photo  BELLEVUE, WA — More than a dozen wildfires burning across British Columbia have produced enough smoke to cover much of Western Washington, delaying flights into Sea-Tac and creating a white haze hanging in the sky. A NASA satellite photo taken Wednesday shows just how far-reaching the smoke is. Shifting wind patterns are sucking the smoke into our region, and meteorologists predict it will be here to stay for a few days. Some areas in Western Washington, in central Seattle in particular, have air quality rated as "unhealthy for sensitive groups." (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Patch, or click here to find your local Washington state Patch.) Air quality is worse in Eastern Washington, with "unhealthy" ratings from Yakima to the Chelan area. You can check air quality on the state Department of Ecology website. The National Weather Service also released a GIF of the smoke moving into Puget Sound: |
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Ancapikitty
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Post by Ancapikitty on Aug 4, 2017 6:31:43 GMT -8
Dang, that's a lot of smoke. >.> Are the political parasites hoping to purge some of the world's population by letting the fire spread further? :/
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Post by acptulsa on Aug 10, 2017 10:15:41 GMT -8
And Seattleites are, by and large, just the type to consider second hand smoke such a deadly sin as to consider this an act of war.
Where are John Candy and Rhea Perlman when you need them?
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 5, 2017 15:09:29 GMT -8
Great, we just get the Canadian smoke cleared out and now we're inundated by smoke from Eastern Washington. It's even worse that the first time. I can't ever remember having to deal with anything this prolonged here. Crap, my eyes are burning and it was raining ashes this morning. Ugh.
At least I'm not in Houston......
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 5, 2017 15:11:31 GMT -8
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Post by acptulsa on Sept 5, 2017 15:31:27 GMT -8
Worse ash than Mt. St. Helens?
Are the feds blaming medical m.j. yet?
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Post by The Connoisseur on Sept 5, 2017 15:48:08 GMT -8
Ash on the windshield, ash on the pine. I bet that ash makes shitty wine.
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 5, 2017 18:16:51 GMT -8
Worse ash than Mt. St. Helens? Are the feds blaming medical m.j. yet? No, not that bad. And not that destructive. But hanging around for a long time. |
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Post by Origanalist on Aug 15, 2018 13:52:11 GMT -8
Here we go again..
Seattle gets another day of thick smoke, air worse than Beijing
The Puget Sound area is due for yet another day of thick fog and unhealthy air quality. It's so bad, in fact, that our air quality is actually worse than Beijing.
With fires on all sides -- including the other side of the Cascades -- the air quality has dropped drastically all over the state and the smoke has gotten even thicker. Some places, like Chelan, have even dropped to hazardous.
Within the Puget Sound area, most places are coming in at "unhealthy," meaning many more people than average may have breathing problems or worsened symptoms of conditions like existing lung or heart disease. It also means that you should work to limit times outdoors, and avoid exercising outdoors.
That advisement goes double for sensitive groups, such as people with heart of lung disease, asthma, diabetes, infants, children, adults older than 65, pregnant people, or those who have had a stroke.
And it's not just Washington: More than a million and a half acres are burning in 15 states, from Alaska to Arizona. And while wildfires are geographically limited, wildfire smoke can (and will) go wherever the wind takes it -- and right now there's some sort of haze across much of North America. Even Calgary is getting a blanket of smoke from all the British Columbia wildfires.
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