Oh hey, we here in the Northwest have the dirtiest air in the country (well somebody has to) and the worst air on record ever, at least for Seattle.
This probably comes as no surprise, but Washington has the worst air quality in the country today thanks to wildfire #smoke. Conditions improve slightly tomorrow #wawx pic.twitter.com/8jOiUesIaC
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) August 15, 2018
Also? Hottest summer ever.
Record broken or broken record? The all-time record for number of 85°+ degree days in a year was set Tuesday in Seattle. The previous record was set in 2017. Oh, it's also only August 15th… #WAwx pic.twitter.com/CLBLASWPAc
— NWS Seattle (@NWSSeattle) August 15, 2018
Normally I can see 60 miles looking out my living room window – to the Olympics. Now I can see about 2, and everything beyond that is white blur. It’s disgusting.
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12 responses to “Oh well, breathing is for sissies”
Is it really worse than August last year? I have pictures of red suns and orange-gray skies in the afternoon.
According to the Instruments, yes. And it is indeed very very bad. August last year is the runner-up.
Sorry. I meant to preview! I don’t know how to load a pic here.
If this year is worse than last year, it’s bad indeed.
I’m sympathetic about the heat record, but…not as much as I might be, since that 28 days of 85 seems like sheer heaven here. We’ve been sweltering all summer, and had our air conditioner on in June, something we rarely had to do even living two states south in Oklahoma (and only occasionally in Texas, but we were in northern Texas, so, pretty Arctic there, right?).
And I still hear people around here say that “we won’t likely start believing it until we experience it ourselves”. WTF?
Ben – I can’t figure out how to load that one either, because I can’t see how to rotate it.
Seattle’s air quality today topped out bang into “unhealthy,” and now, I think, sits just down into “unhealthy for sensitive groups”. The windows stay closed, the cats are unhappy. I hate new normals.
Windows closed just drives me batty!
OK, now I’ll definitely sympathize, because I’ve been crazy all summer without being able to have the windows open (immensely hot), and now we can. We’ve got smoke here all the way from the west coast fires – it interfered with our view of the Perseids the other night on the prairie, but…only a minor annoyance, except for those of us with asthma.
Good thing Trump’s dealing with those pesky unnecessary regulations, right?
iknklast – bear in mind that the record is for days of 85 plus.
In New Mexico, we get smoke that can burn eyes for days. With no air conditioning in my house that means nasty nights of either hot (closed windows) or smoke filled air.
Ick ick ick, sympathies. I don’t have air conditioning either so it’s the same gruesome choice…plus of course it’s not as if the air inside is sparkly clean anyway, because the smoke was building for days. Last night was foul.
The air quality in Seattle has improved to “moderate”, so I am opening a window. Here we go…and immediately, the cat is sitting there.