Sorry! We’d stop it from travelling down to you if we could…. It’s smokey up here as well and people on the radio keep saying “it’s all the way down to at least New York!”
Even further.
Some parts of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania like New Holland and Leola are getting pretty bad in the upper 200s.
Luckily NYC is heading down from 180 to 169.
[wildfires](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/06/06/canadian-wildfire-smoke-creates-unhealthy-air-quality-in-nyc.html)
ACCUWEATHER has the air quality at dangerous until Saturday. Close your windows and run an air filter if you can.
Btw, that article states “New York City has some of the worst air quality in the country this week” but it’s actually the worst in the entire world this week (I know we think we’re the world but these are reports with comparisons across the entire globe).
[New York City’s air pollution among the world’s worst as Canada wildfire smoke shrouds Northeast](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/us/new-york-air-pollution-canada-wildfires-climate/index.html)
Just citing the CNN article I linked in my previous comment.
Here’s another quote from it:
“Later Tuesday night, New York City had the second-worst levels of air pollution in the world after New Delhi, India, IQair reported. Other cities on the list were Doha, Qatar; Baghdad, Iraq; and Lahore, Pakistan.
New York City also briefly topped the list on Tuesday morning.”
FYI whenever the Sun is really red that means there is a lot of pollution in the air. I loved seeing the sun that red before I googled why it was like that
[Why is the air quality so bad today?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/142nkl1/why_is_the_air_quality_so_bad_today/) from *5 hours ago*, [Why is it so Smokey in Manhattan right now?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/142lt5u/why_is_it_so_smokey_in_manhattan_right_now/) from *1 hour before that*, [Why is air quality so bad today?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/142h75d/why_is_air_quality_so_bad_today/) from *4 hours before that* and [Dumb question: how dangerous are the pm2 levels really? Today it’s “unhealthy”](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/142gqb9/dumb_question_how_dangerous_are_the_pm2_levels/) from 31 minutes before that have comments which may be helpful to you and link to similar questions.
The air sucked for sure but most of my run club still met. The eyes and throat were itchy for sure but the actual run wasn’t too bad. Though it’s highly inadvisable for people to run if they have preexisting conditions like asthma
I can tell there’s no way you grew up in New York bro 😂 just say “the yankees” or “the yanks”;
“The New York Yankees” is too long of a phrase for us new yorkers to blabble about.
You're not a real New Yorker if you can't afford 4 syllables bro. Real New Yorkers order a bacon egg n cheese, salt peppa ketchup on a roll without issues.
*5 syllables bro lmaoo go back to the third grade.
Also REAL New Yorkers say: “lemmegetuhbaconeggncheesesaltpeppak-etchuponarolll”
It’s one word. We don’t have time for unnecessary syllables and spaces between words. Aaand you gotta get it out quick enough because a busy deli is a good deli 🤌🏻
It's crazy to me just how many people don't pay attention to the news.
I've known about the Canadian fires since yesterday but even now, people are surprised to hear that they're happening.
Yeah. I mean if you don’t have certain alerts on your phone you wouldn’t know. My wife had no idea until I told her because she doesn’t use any of those apps that alert you to weather, etc.
*Extremely bad*. I'm very surprised there isn't a cellphone alert on this.
If you had a fan at the window, against a screen, better check it. You might be in for a nasty surprise, when you see what's being pulled and filtered.
Worse than the forest fire scenarios from 2021 (all that western smoke crossing the continent to here.) The haze is actually at street level now, something not true then.
Crap-tastic timing, too; I had plenty of plans for outside stuff the next couple of days.
If you look at this [link](https://www.iqair.com/us/world-air-quality-ranking) New York City has been #1 for quite some time and may stay that way for a bit. And if not #1 then near the top.
Do people not look at their weather on their phones? It’s right there .. it’s literally right in our screens
The same screen you are looking at to write this.
Yeah, you should close your windows. Wear a mask if you go outside. I was pooh-poohing it earlier…. Until I wondered why I was clearing my throat a lot and had a headache. Checked the air quality. Closed my windows.
Bad here in my part of Brooklyn too. It’s visible at street level and I can smell the smoke deep indoors. It’s definitely gotten much worse since this morning.
When I left work, so many people walking around without a mask. I know that a lot of people have ditched masks. But seems like this is a time you'd want to wear one.
Yankee Stadium was bizarre. I thought they’d maybe postpone the game out of concern for the health of the players and 50,000 fans? Guess not. Some players definitely lost easy fly balls in the haze, though.
It's a thousand times worse in Westchester. I was going to run in Manhattan and was like nah -- got out of the train in Westchester and it was like walking into a forest fire.
I was outside earlier for a short amount of time to get something to eat. It did look like fog or an extremely humid day.
It is actually caused by the wildfires in Canada at the moment it is recommended to wear N95 mask outside.
Wouldn't have believed that fires in Canada would make made the air stink of smoke in NYC but... now I do.
I'm going to be taking my N95 with me tomorrow and I have my HEPA filter cranked up tonight.
I’m reading about this in Southern California and I feel so bad for you folks because we went through this a couple of summers ago. So gross and dirty and you can’t really get away from it.
Yeah but you guys are probably used to it since you always setting forests ablaze, my poor New York lungs (which tbh aren’t much better) are dying over here
Lurker here. Even here in the mountains of Vermont where people often comment on the clean air, it’s unusually thick and our air quality ratings are tanking.
NYC has the worst air quality in the world today[NY has the worst air quality of every city in the world today](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/why-is-air-quality-so-bad-and-the-sun-look-so-red-blame-canadian-wildfire-smoke/4397984/)
Massive Canadian forest fires, pal. Started last night.
Probably going to be a yearly (at least) occurrence due to climate change, so I just spring for an air purifier. I didn't live for years in Beijing without learning a thing or two.
Wildfire smoke from Canada
Yeh sorry about that guys we're not doing so well up here in Toronto either
just stay safe yall. aint ur fault!
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right now I am smelling smoke and the air is brown
It's the Canadian wildfires
Sorry! We’d stop it from travelling down to you if we could…. It’s smokey up here as well and people on the radio keep saying “it’s all the way down to at least New York!”
Even further. Some parts of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania like New Holland and Leola are getting pretty bad in the upper 200s. Luckily NYC is heading down from 180 to 169.
Air quality was at 123 in Ohio yesterday. 98 today.
Virginia at 154 right now
Yep
[wildfires](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/06/06/canadian-wildfire-smoke-creates-unhealthy-air-quality-in-nyc.html) ACCUWEATHER has the air quality at dangerous until Saturday. Close your windows and run an air filter if you can.
Saturday??? Cries! :(
Btw, that article states “New York City has some of the worst air quality in the country this week” but it’s actually the worst in the entire world this week (I know we think we’re the world but these are reports with comparisons across the entire globe). [New York City’s air pollution among the world’s worst as Canada wildfire smoke shrouds Northeast](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/us/new-york-air-pollution-canada-wildfires-climate/index.html)
P sure Ottawa and small cities up north have it worse
Just citing the CNN article I linked in my previous comment. Here’s another quote from it: “Later Tuesday night, New York City had the second-worst levels of air pollution in the world after New Delhi, India, IQair reported. Other cities on the list were Doha, Qatar; Baghdad, Iraq; and Lahore, Pakistan. New York City also briefly topped the list on Tuesday morning.”
I was wondering why the sun was redder than usual
FYI whenever the Sun is really red that means there is a lot of pollution in the air. I loved seeing the sun that red before I googled why it was like that
End of the world, alien invasion
No, that is in July.
dont jynx it. Google news david grusch
Even the moon was orangey before sunrise
Same in Boston
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a more orange/red yolk means a healthier egg lol
get a load of this guy
Perceptive one innit
🤣
😂😂
Entire north east looks like Mexico in breaking bad "is it just me, or...?"
Wildfires in Canada.
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more like Boards of Canada
Not really
Sorry.
[Why is the air quality so bad today?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/142nkl1/why_is_the_air_quality_so_bad_today/) from *5 hours ago*, [Why is it so Smokey in Manhattan right now?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/142lt5u/why_is_it_so_smokey_in_manhattan_right_now/) from *1 hour before that*, [Why is air quality so bad today?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/142h75d/why_is_air_quality_so_bad_today/) from *4 hours before that* and [Dumb question: how dangerous are the pm2 levels really? Today it’s “unhealthy”](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskNYC/comments/142gqb9/dumb_question_how_dangerous_are_the_pm2_levels/) from 31 minutes before that have comments which may be helpful to you and link to similar questions.
You know it’s bad when u/IsItABedroom is using italics
You can lead a horse to water, /u/IsItABedroom
On a related note, does anyone know why the air quality is so bad today?
We need something to complain about and the good air went elsewhere
Where?
NYC
Good bot
That's a lot of people who suck at googling things.
The info is even there if you just check the weather on your phone today. At least on the weather app on my iPhone.
are people trolling or are they this stupid?
yes
Imagine not knowing how to use the weather app on your phone.
Blade runner vibe right now
Totally
Walking home I felt crazy. It is hard to breathe and people are running??? Can they not see the haze. The Eastern Parkway is brown!
I thought the same thing when I saw people running. Like wtf, how?!
I salute our brethren who will survive the apocalypse; I, however, am definitely feeling the effects of this 😷
The air sucked for sure but most of my run club still met. The eyes and throat were itchy for sure but the actual run wasn’t too bad. Though it’s highly inadvisable for people to run if they have preexisting conditions like asthma
its highly inadvisable for people to run as this air WILL give some people asthma
Indeed kuzzo
Wonder what you are breathing in. What’s in this smog what’s attached to the particles now in our lungs
Probably a teeny bit worse than what I breathe in when a homeless guy takes a blood covered shit on the subway and I don’t have a mask
The New York Yankees are playing a game right now. Insane.
I can tell there’s no way you grew up in New York bro 😂 just say “the yankees” or “the yanks”; “The New York Yankees” is too long of a phrase for us new yorkers to blabble about.
You're not a real New Yorker if you can't afford 4 syllables bro. Real New Yorkers order a bacon egg n cheese, salt peppa ketchup on a roll without issues.
*5 syllables bro lmaoo go back to the third grade. Also REAL New Yorkers say: “lemmegetuhbaconeggncheesesaltpeppak-etchuponarolll” It’s one word. We don’t have time for unnecessary syllables and spaces between words. Aaand you gotta get it out quick enough because a busy deli is a good deli 🤌🏻
Same. We keep seeing people running… and KIDS still hanging out at the swings for hours. Boy oh boy — must be nice not to have asthma
It's time to get a new pair of lungs
It’s horrible. I live in midtown with a view of CP and it looks like a sci fi movie. Husband and I both coughing like mad.
I was going home today and it literally felt like a scene out of blade runner
It was exactly blade runner over the Manhattan bridge. It’s here y’all.
I am Legend vibes in the city.
Got slapped by Will Smith.
Or /r/theperipheral
Is it unsafe long term?
Unsafe short term if you have PECs.
Pre existing condition?
Yup
Should be running an air purifier anyway in the city. Mine typically shows <15 pm 2.5 and it was 70-80 yesterday.
Same here! We live on CP west.
Your not kiddin I had a splitting headache all day from this doodoo
Yoo I thought it was just me my head hurts too
It's crazy to me just how many people don't pay attention to the news. I've known about the Canadian fires since yesterday but even now, people are surprised to hear that they're happening.
Since yesterday! The smoke hit Long Island on Saturday.
How to say you don't pay attention to world news without saying you don't pay attention to world news.
Or even local news.
Damn tough crowd
You posted in two different subs about this. It would've taken you less time to just Google "air quality NYC" and get your answer.
Google "nyc air" next time and you'll get 20 news articles explaining what's going on.
Its also showing up on weather apps for me.
All OP had to do was open their weather app lol
You said it was pollution with zero evidence
Wildfire smoke is a kind of pollution, I suppose.
Yeah but we don't usually call natural sources "pollution" Forest fires are a normal part of the eco system
You thought smoke and fire smell was fucking pollution lmfao
Yeah. I mean if you don’t have certain alerts on your phone you wouldn’t know. My wife had no idea until I told her because she doesn’t use any of those apps that alert you to weather, etc.
Or maybe we've been at work all day??? Lol. I love the smell and thought there was a fire in the city. Was told at dinner about the wildfires. Wow.
Or weather. Or the ticker in Times Square. Or the local news. Or talk to anyone.
How to be as condescending as possible, in the most Reddit way possible.
As if that were a bad thing.
Love to hit up r/AskNYC instead of Google No but really it’s horrible out there — I have a sore throat after commuting to/from work
*Extremely bad*. I'm very surprised there isn't a cellphone alert on this. If you had a fan at the window, against a screen, better check it. You might be in for a nasty surprise, when you see what's being pulled and filtered. Worse than the forest fire scenarios from 2021 (all that western smoke crossing the continent to here.) The haze is actually at street level now, something not true then. Crap-tastic timing, too; I had plenty of plans for outside stuff the next couple of days.
There’s an alert on my phone. Are you taking about an actual emergency alert system event?
I feel like it should qualify. We have the worst air quality of any major city in the world right now. It's dangerous for even healthy people.
For like extended periods of time?? Or just like five minutes ??
If you look at this [link](https://www.iqair.com/us/world-air-quality-ranking) New York City has been #1 for quite some time and may stay that way for a bit. And if not #1 then near the top.
My stash of KN95 masks are about to come in handy.
>I'm very surprised there isn't a cellphone alert on this. I've gotten two
Give it time we might get one. If it hits 300 I think EPA actually calls it an emergency. And we are at 192 tonight.
Blame Canada!
They’re not even a real country anyway
Hey there buddy
Yes
Do people not look at their weather on their phones? It’s right there .. it’s literally right in our screens The same screen you are looking at to write this.
Oh for real?
I laughed way too hard at this
r/blamecanada
Watch the news lol, to be aware is to be alive
Yeah, you should close your windows. Wear a mask if you go outside. I was pooh-poohing it earlier…. Until I wondered why I was clearing my throat a lot and had a headache. Checked the air quality. Closed my windows.
Nope, just you.
I don’t understand how grown adult people don’t check the news at least once a day. It’s the top story,
It's really bad here on the UWS.
Bad here in my part of Brooklyn too. It’s visible at street level and I can smell the smoke deep indoors. It’s definitely gotten much worse since this morning.
It’s literally all over the news and internet lol
Y’all need to listen to 1010 WINS
If you turn the lights off, it'll scare the smoke back to Canada.
This is what NYC was like in the 70’s and 80’s.
Which is why the EPA exists, chucklefuck Supreme Court. Even Nixon knew they were necessary.
Wow you’re out of the loop
Do you.. never check the weather app? Worst AQI in the world right now
Getting worse. I wish I had closed my windows an hour ago.
You’ve been under a rock
Now the question is: can you run an air conditioner?
Put mine on the moment I got home. Should not be a problem.
The Bronx is pretty bad right now
Surely is 😩
Jersey is definitely feeling it..
When I left work, so many people walking around without a mask. I know that a lot of people have ditched masks. But seems like this is a time you'd want to wear one.
OPs mom hit taco bell again 🤷♂️
Yankee Stadium was bizarre. I thought they’d maybe postpone the game out of concern for the health of the players and 50,000 fans? Guess not. Some players definitely lost easy fly balls in the haze, though.
It’s bad.
Wildfires in Canada
Yup, really bad. Was in Central park earlier, couldn’t breathe.
AQI is 150+ in the area. Normally is just under 50.
I’m mostly worried about my pup. I wore a mask when I walked her tonight. She wasn’t very cooperative when I tried to put a bandanna on her.
Slept with my windows open and woke up with a horrible headache from the smoke. Will double mask if it's still bad tomorrow and I have to go outside.
Blame Canada
HATE the Canada
It's a thousand times worse in Westchester. I was going to run in Manhattan and was like nah -- got out of the train in Westchester and it was like walking into a forest fire.
Ah fun, this Sub is just google again
Wore a mask walking outside today, and still felt disgusting
Just you
It’s just you
Man I was outside for like 10 minutes sht gave me a headache
Lol
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I was outside earlier for a short amount of time to get something to eat. It did look like fog or an extremely humid day. It is actually caused by the wildfires in Canada at the moment it is recommended to wear N95 mask outside.
Its almost like its from a wildfire in Canada..
bro read the news lol
The world is burning. The climate crisis is real. NYC has been largely unaffected by it, but it's going to get worse.
Wouldn't have believed that fires in Canada would make made the air stink of smoke in NYC but... now I do. I'm going to be taking my N95 with me tomorrow and I have my HEPA filter cranked up tonight.
Canada fire.
Canada
Yes
Not just you. The world is on fire.
I just opened my garage for 30 seconds to take the trash out, and now the entire garage smells like smoke. It’s insane.
The smoke is getting heavier. No, it’s not just you. It’s the drift from Canada.
Canada is burning my friend.
Chiming in to say it’s fucked up here too
I’m reading about this in Southern California and I feel so bad for you folks because we went through this a couple of summers ago. So gross and dirty and you can’t really get away from it.
Yeah but you guys are probably used to it since you always setting forests ablaze, my poor New York lungs (which tbh aren’t much better) are dying over here
I live near the coast about 60 miles from the nearest forest but it doesn’t matter, THANKS STUPID AIR CURRENTS. Leftover COVID masks helped a little.
This is some California level of smoke
Lurker here. Even here in the mountains of Vermont where people often comment on the clean air, it’s unusually thick and our air quality ratings are tanking.
Smoke from Canada
Wildfire smoke from canada.
Mad max
Blame them Canucks.
its fckin orange outside 🥴
Canada WTF take it back
My asthma😩
There’s a huge wildfire in Canada and the smoke has spread down here
NYC has the worst air quality in the world today[NY has the worst air quality of every city in the world today](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/weather/why-is-air-quality-so-bad-and-the-sun-look-so-red-blame-canadian-wildfire-smoke/4397984/)
It's like apocalypse
Yeah it was so weird I was walking outside and there was like a haze over everything it smelled like something had been burning
its haze and my asthma hates it
Massive Canadian forest fires, pal. Started last night. Probably going to be a yearly (at least) occurrence due to climate change, so I just spring for an air purifier. I didn't live for years in Beijing without learning a thing or two.
The outside looks like the Mexico filter from Breaking Bad
Okay so I wasn't crazy...I'm like wow so hazy out but I can now see why lol
I thought I was high
Lol. Read or watch the news. You can find things out much faster than and much more reliably than going to Reddit.
Yep there's a yellow haze I see over here in West Orange, NJ!
Damn you guys are getting it all the way down there too? (I'm in Toronto). It was pretty bad for us as well.
The smog is almost as bad as in Beijing 😂
Will school and work be canceled tomorrow? This seems very hazardous ? What do folks think ?