Air quality

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Wed Sep 16, 2020 12:13 am

For anyone who isn't familiar with them, I use these sites all day when the west coast fires are going or I'm worried about east coast weather near my family. Figured someone might find them useful regardless of where they live, both are global.

http://www.purpleair.com

Basically 10-second averages air quality overlaid on googlemaps.

Thing I like is all their specs aren't based on national weather predictions but on real-time individuals/businesses/schools that have purchased their plug&play WIFI laser particulate sensors.

https://earth.nullschool.net/

Super cool weather patterns with a google earth spin.

Shows all the hurricanes in the gulf and heading towards right now, and the Pacific winds that have thankfully pushed/pulled the smoke away from the coast for the moment.

Highly customizable in the bottom left.

l1991 · Post by **l1991** » Wed Sep 16, 2020 4:45 am

These are two very interesting sites. I immediately checked the air quality where I live. Thanks for sharing!

Post by **Philip** » Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:13 am

Hadn't seen the second one, really interesting, thanks for sharing!

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Fri Sep 18, 2020 12:09 am

l1991 wrote:These are two very interesting sites. I immediately checked the air quality where I live. Thanks for sharing!

Welcome to speedguide

Glad you found it useful.

nightowl · Post by **nightowl** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:09 am

nice!..

smoke even made it to eastern ontario last week. haze over everything. reminded me of what it used to be like during summer in the 90's with the coal power plants going.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sun Sep 20, 2020 7:28 pm

Yeah...they've picked up smoke from the west coast fires in northern Europe.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Tue Sep 22, 2020 7:15 pm

Humby, this site may help you decide on a filter:
https://www.filtersfast.com/blog/differ ... .%E2%80%9D

I believe that you need a MERV-11...

jeremyboycool · Post by **jeremyboycool** » Thu Sep 24, 2020 6:41 pm

Almost every summer in Montana is a smokescreen and now is not a good time for it, as you don't know if people coughing have covid or if it's just irritation due to the smoky air.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 2:01 am

Ken wrote:Humby, this site may help you decide on a filter:
https://www.filtersfast.com/blog/differ ... .%E2%80%9D

I believe that you need a MERV-11...

Thank you sir.

Wading through the pop-ups now.

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Tue Sep 29, 2020 5:50 pm

Humboldt wrote:https://earth.nullschool.net/ Super cool weather patterns with a google earth spin.

That is good. Where I live (looks dark) the smoke from the burning "weed farms" makes one "numb" about what is going on in other parts of the world. I still have concerns about what is in the fridge... but that is my problem.

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 2:50 am

Back at 92 ppm, readings all all over the place hourly.

Last time below 50 was over a week ago, but about 100/150 ppm steady.

This sucks, feeling for the folks where it's worse.

Fresh coat of ash on the trucks every morning. Relieved the fires aren't closer.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:33 pm

Humboldt wrote:Thank you sir.

Wading through the pop-ups now.

Sorry, I didn't know about the pop ups as I don't really get them...

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:40 pm

MadDoctor wrote:That is good. Where I live (looks dark and smelly) the smoke from the burning "weed farms" makes one "numb" about what is going on in other parts of MY BODY. I still have concerns about what is "GROWING" in the fridge (And in my underwear, which is Fruit of the Doomed)... but that is JUST ONE OF MY MANY, MANY problems, including but not limited to bed wetting...

Corrected...
Have you been hanging out with Belushi again, or are you referring to the rabbit tobacco of your youth...

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Wed Oct 07, 2020 1:42 pm

Humboldt wrote:Back at 92 ppm, readings all all over the place hourly.

Last time below 50 was over a week ago, but about 100/150 ppm steady.

This sucks, feeling for the folks where it's worse.

Fresh coat of ash on the trucks every morning. Relieved the fires aren't closer.

Best of luck to you and all peeps affected!

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Thu Oct 08, 2020 11:02 pm

Thank you sir.

162 ppm right now, barely below 120/100 for a couple of weeks.

F*ck

Post by **Philip** » Fri Oct 09, 2020 8:15 am

Come down to Florida, we only get an occasional hurricane.

Easto · Post by **Easto** » Mon Oct 12, 2020 1:41 pm

Humboldt wrote:Thank you sir.

162 ppm right now, barely below 120/100 for a couple of weeks.

Sorry to hear you're getting hit so bad. Down here in the South whatever problem we had is pretty much gone.

leekie · Post by **leekie** » Mon Nov 30, 2020 7:45 am

It's great that modern technology now allows people to warn of danger.
Of course, the problem will not disappear, but although people will have time to prepare, the government will have time to evacuate people if necessary, and so on.
It's hard for me to imagine that even 100 years ago, natural disasters could come on suddenly, and people weren't ready for that.
And how many lives could have been saved if people had been warned of the danger?