OT:Holy smoke!

[Bronx]

First,  I want to wish everyone around New York City to stay safe and healthy.

NYC’s air pollution among world’s worst as smoke from Canadian wildfires set to linger

https://nypost.com/2023/06/07/nyc-to-be-clouded-by-canadian-wildfire-smoke-through-sunday?utm_source=nypost&utm_campaign=android_nyp

[y2k8]

 

It looks and smells like the apocalypse outside.

[Bronx]

3 minutes ago, y2k8 said:

 

It looks and smells like the apocalypse outside.

Truly sorry and I hope that it clears ASAP.

[JetPotato]

It's getting legitimately hard to breathe normally. Are we sure Canada is even there still?

[Bronx]

These people are insane!

[undertow]

I hope they catch the arsonists. 

[SAM SAM HE'S OUR MAN]

It's horrible in Queens . Not so bad on Long Island .

[jbt]

it doesn't look that bad out there 

[K Clue]

4 minutes ago, SAM SAM HE'S OUR MAN said:

It's horrible in Queens . Not so bad on Long Island .

It’s pretty bad out here in Suffolk. 
 

it smells horrible as well. 

[slimjasi]

that really sucks

[PS17]

My brother posted this on IG from his office

[BallinPB]

Looks as if it's dusk all day long.  Very eerie feeling outside.  

[Bronx]

Aaron Rodgers after 6 months in NY...

 

 

[Bronx]

4 minutes ago, PS17 said:

My brother posted this on IG from his office

Wow, thats terrible. It's starting to look like the ass of California. 

[JustInFudge]

Awesome.  Heading up to this city this weekend.  

[The Crusher]

1 minute ago, JiF said:

Awesome.  Heading up to this city this weekend.  

I saw this thread didn’t have the heart to tell you. Sorry sweet one. 

[Joe W. Namath]

Hang in there guys.  Stay indoors.

[Jet Nut]

My son just sent me these, Yankee Stadium, both before sundown.  Crazy

 

[Bungaman]

More on the big picture (if it's visible):

There’s nowhere to escape the smoke from wildfires

By David Wallace-Wells Opinion Writer

My father, who died of lung cancer, used to say that as soon as someone inhaled their first cigarette they immediately knew, if they weren’t in denial, that they were harming themselves.

I felt the same way on Tuesday in New York, my eyes itching and my nose burning and the taste in my throat like I’d swallowed a charcoal bonbon. This had to be bad. The sky wasn’t quite the apocalyptic orange of Australia’s Black Summer or San Francisco’s Day The Sun Didn’t Rise, but it had grown confrontationally eerie, enveloping the city in a blanket of toxic smog.

Until now, if people in the green and leafy Northeast looked at arid Western cities covered in smoke from wildfires, they could say, that can’t happen here, thank God. On Tuesday, it did: For a moment, New York’s air quality was worse than it was in Delhi, the infamous pollution capital where average life spans are reduced more than nine years by particulates in the air. By evening, New York had registered the worst air quality in the world among major cities. And staying indoors may not provide perfect protection.

While winds are fickle, and it can be hard to predict where smoke will travel in the days and weeks ahead, there isn’t any reason to think the Canadian fires coughing this smoke up into the atmosphere will be stopping anytime soon.

In Quebec, more than a hundred wildfires were characterized as “out of control” by local authorities. Across Canada, 13 times as much land has burned by this date as in recent years, many of which had extreme or unprecedented levels of fire at the time. And we’re still two weeks from summer.

Even before this Tuesday’s surge of smoke, Jeva Lange at Heatmap had calculated that East Coasters had inhaled more wildfire pollution so far this year than most of their counterparts on the West Coast, thanks to a quieter early fire season in California. “The air is compromised from Minneapolis to D.C. to Boston,” The Washington Post’s Capital Weather Gang reported on Tuesday.

A month ago, as off-the-charts wildfires raged in Alberta, I wrote about one of the scariest revelations of new wildfire science: There’s nowhere to escape the smoke. Sixty percent of the pollution from American wildfires is experienced by people living outside the state in which the trees are actually burning.

This phenomenon is harrowingly new: Between 2006 and 2010, according to one recent preprint, there was hardly any place in the West where smoke from other counties contributed as much as 10 percent of local air pollution; between 2016 and 2020, smoke from distant fires was contributing as much as half of local air pollution across huge swaths of the region.

Already, the health impact of American wildfires is larger east of the Rockies than to the west. Across the country, the number of people exposed to what are sometimes called extreme smoke days has grown 27-fold in just a decade, and exposure to even-more-extreme smoke events has grown 11,000-fold. Since 2000, growing wildfire pollution has reversed significant gains from the Clean Air Act, and over the coming decades, it is poised to become the country’s main source of particulate pollution. In this way, the haunting gray glow of the sky this week was both a throwback to a more contaminated past and a portent of a future clouded more regularly by airborne toxic events such as these.

This is especially distressing because of all we are learning about the poisonous effects of particulate pollution on nearly all measures of health. Globally, all forms of air pollution are responsible for perhaps 10 million deaths each year, and, short of mortality, contribute to respiratory disease and cardiac disease, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, dementia, cancer, mental illness and suicide, miscarriage and premature birth and low birth weight. According to some recent research, of all forms of particulate pollution, wildfire smoke may be the most toxic.

The health effects of pollution far from its origin have not been studied in such detail, but this danger from a distance is changing the way we think about the menace of wildfire and of climate change. If 10 years ago Californians feared fire, more recently they’ve begun to fear smoke — even as every one of the state’s 15 largest recorded fires has taken place in the past two decades. Six of the seven largest have burned since 2020.

Americans elsewhere in the country who have experienced that threat mainly by scrolling in horror through amber Instagrams and dashcam footage of drives through walls of flame are beginning to realize how much farther the threat can travel.

But the smoke pouring in from the north may mark another perspective shift, away from the American west as the fountainhead of wildfire. Ten percent of the world’s forests rise up from Canadian soil, John Vaillant writes in his mesmerizing new — and unfortunately, exquisitely timed — “Fire Weather: A True Story From a Hotter World.” Increasingly, those forests look poised to burn.

Early in the book, a meticulous and meditative account of the changing landscape of Canadian fire, Vaillant describes the Chinchaga fire of 1950 — at approximately four million acres in western Canada, the largest ever recorded in North America. “The fire generated a smoke plume so large it came to be known as the Great Smoke Pall of 1950,” Vaillant writes. “Rising 40,000 feet into the stratosphere, the plume’s enormous umbra lowered average temperatures by several degrees, caused birds to roost at midday, and created weird visual effects as it circled the northern hemisphere, including widespread reports of lavender suns and blue moons.” He continues, “the last time such effects had been reported on this scale was following the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. Carl Sagan was sufficiently impressed by the effects of the Chinchaga fire to wonder if they might resemble those of a nuclear winter.”

Vaillant’s book is not about the Chinchaga fire, but the Horse River fire, also known as the Fort McMurray fire, which in 2016 destroyed thousands of homes in the boomtown-center of the Athabasca oil-sand region and forced the largest wildfire evacuation in Canada’s history. Today, for all but the most informed followers of wildfire, it is already nearly forgotten — which is to say, surpassed by subsequent fire horrors and thereby normalized almost into background noise.

That noise is getting louder as we head deeper into what the fire historian Stephen Pyne calls “the pyrocene.”

“Fire isn’t going away,” Vaillant recently told The Guardian. “We’re going to be burning for this entire century.” The Alberta fires had only just begun to rage, but he saw the course of change quite clearly. “This is a global shift. It’s an epochal shift, and we happen to be alive for it.”

[Bronx]

1 minute ago, Jet Nut said:

My son just sent me these, Yankee Stadium, both before sundown.  Crazy

 

Why are people exposing themselves like this? It's definitely hazardous air and can have a severe impact on health. 

[Morrissey]

3 minutes ago, Bronx said:

Why are people exposing themselves like this? It's definitely hazardous air and can have a severe impact on health. 

have you been alive the last 4 years? humans are stupid as feck

[CanadienJetsFan]

53 minutes ago, JetPotato said:

It's getting legitimately hard to breathe normally. Are we sure Canada is even there still?

Just confirming, we’re holding our breaths, but we’re still here

[JetPotato]

7 minutes ago, CanadienJetsFan said:

Just confirming, we’re holding our breaths, but we’re still here

Glad you are.

But now I'm wondering if you guys had a big nationwide poutine festival this week and are trying to explain away the aftermath as "smoke".

[Biggs]

We need to build a HEPA filter along the Canadian border ASAP.  

[JTJet]

1 hour ago, Bronx said:

These people are insane!

@Jetsfan80was at the 6AM sesh practicing the downward dog. 

[y2k8]

1 hour ago, Bronx said:

Truly sorry and I hope that it clears ASAP.

It's actually worse now because the smell is in the house as well.

Buy stock in Febreeze.

[Larz]

It’s getting kinda serious. Code red in New Jersey with a warning to stat inside 

[bicketybam]

I'm going early!

[Bronx]

11 minutes ago, bicketybam said:

I'm going early!

Are people that fuking desperate to watch a game? 

[RutgersJetFan]

Hey all, I moved back to NJ last year after spending the last several years out in LA. Out there, this is what you deal with every fall and I've seen people get really sick from this stuff because of nothing more than stupidity. 

Please don't **** around when it's like this outside. Just this afternoon I've seen people outside jogging, heading to Costco....etc, just going about their day like it's completely normal. Stay inside and if you have to go out absolutely wear a N95 if you can. This stuff can really **** you up. If you have kids make sure they are wearing masks and if they have any sort of respiratory problems (i.e. asthma) keep them home.

[Larz]

These tiny particles are actually kinda dangerous.  I’d stay inside if possible   My daughter sent me this.  
 

 

[jeremy2020]

1 hour ago, JetPotato said:

It's getting legitimately hard to breathe normally. Are we sure Canada is even there still?

Did it ever really exist to begin with?

[Jet_Engine1]

1 hour ago, Bronx said:

First,  I want to wish everyone around New York City to stay safe and healthy.

NYC’s air pollution among world’s worst as smoke from Canadian wildfires set to linger

https://nypost.com/2023/06/07/nyc-to-be-clouded-by-canadian-wildfire-smoke-through-sunday?utm_source=nypost&utm_campaign=android_nyp

No Bueno. Smoke particulates, even from wood fuel contains a lot of bad stuff...arsenic, cyanide etc. If you can smell it, you're breathing it.

 

 

[CanadienJetsFan]

42 minutes ago, JetPotato said:

Glad you are.

But now I'm wondering if you guys had a big nationwide poutine festival this week and are trying to explain away the aftermath as "smoke".

Lol . I think of it like we just laid one gigantic fart and you guys happen to be down wind.

sorry about that…what do want, as a Canadian we apologize for everything!!!

[Beerfish]

Had this earlier in the year from Alberta wildfires here in Edmonton.  Just very nasty and really bad health wise.

Hopefully you guys get a good rain and a change in wind to get rid of it.