herbalhippie t1_it348cd wrote on October 20, 2022 at 4:14 PM

Reply to comment by SounderBruce in Air quality around Seattle ranked worst in the world by SounderBruce

This is amazing to me. I'm in Eastern WA just east of the mountains and looking out my front window it looks like I'm in a heavy fog bank. I checked the air quality here, it's 196. Seattle is freaking 217.

I grew up in Seattle and was in the area until 1998 and never once saw wildfire smoke. Now it's an every year occurrence.

On 10/5 our air quality was 345-Hazardous. Here's what it looked like.

https://imgur.com/Q17PM20

Shot_Presence_8382 t1_it8h4gt wrote on October 21, 2022 at 6:19 PM

Down here in Vancouver, WA and air quality is horrible. It was 171 last time I checked and my daughter's school has done indoor recess and VPS has cancelled school sports and athletics or kept them indoors this week. There's like 4 fires burning nearby towards Washougal and Camas. The Nakia Creek fire was apparently started by some idiots in the woods and the police are looking for them - there's a far off picture of their vehicle.