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(07-25-2018, 06:09 PM)Juniper Wrote: (07-25-2018, 04:06 PM)tvguy Wrote: The DEQ air quality site says Medford is at 165 It's been close to that all day.
But as of about 2 hours ago the smoke blew in and not I can't even see Tablerock and that's only two miles.
That hill below is less than 1/2 mile from my house. I think the air here is probably hazardous.
Interesting how everyone gets different reads....all morning we were hovering at around 140...right now it's 180 and I can really feel it. I HAD to go outside and do some watering. Spent about a half an hour. Felt sicker by the minute. Can't you get a sprinkler and just go out and move it every so often?
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(07-25-2018, 06:27 PM)tvguy Wrote: (07-25-2018, 06:09 PM)Juniper Wrote: (07-25-2018, 04:06 PM)tvguy Wrote: The DEQ air quality site says Medford is at 165 It's been close to that all day.
But as of about 2 hours ago the smoke blew in and not I can't even see Tablerock and that's only two miles.
That hill below is less than 1/2 mile from my house. I think the air here is probably hazardous.
Interesting how everyone gets different reads....all morning we were hovering at around 140...right now it's 180 and I can really feel it. I HAD to go outside and do some watering. Spent about a half an hour. Felt sicker by the minute. Can't you get a sprinkler and just go out and move it every so often?
I do. It's just the side yard that I had to do. But even the days when I go in and out for the sprinkler I can feel it. I'm very sensitive. I've got some masks on the way. I give in.
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NOW DEQ says the AQI is 236.. VERY UNHEALTHY but it's been the same f***ing day
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The atmosphere is pretty dynamic. It doesn't surprise me that readings aren't uniform from place to place and time to time. I would expect it.
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(07-25-2018, 08:10 PM)Cuzz Wrote: The atmosphere is pretty dynamic. It doesn't surprise me that readings aren't uniform from place to place and time to time. I would expect it. I spose so.
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(07-25-2018, 07:51 PM)tvguy Wrote: NOW DEQ says the AQI is 236.. VERY UNHEALTHY but it's been the same f***ing day
I didn't see it that high today....but I have. Every evening around 5 to 7 it seems to get worse. The little light on the purifier goes to red, but I don't need to see that to know, I just start to feel worse and worse. Now the AQI is reading 197.
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(07-25-2018, 08:48 PM)Juniper Wrote: (07-25-2018, 07:51 PM)tvguy Wrote: NOW DEQ says the AQI is 236.. VERY UNHEALTHY but it's been the same f***ing day
I didn't see it that high today....but I have. Every evening around 5 to 7 it seems to get worse. The little light on the purifier goes to red, but I don't need to see that to know, I just start to feel worse and worse. Now the AQI is reading 197.
Yes it says 197 but right now the wind cleaned out the air around me and it way better than that now.
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I kind of use Roxy Ann as a gauge...I can see it right now. I figure it's about 2 miles away. So that's better. Sometimes it just disappears. But does visibility mean better? Could it be more visible and worse pollutants?
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(07-25-2018, 08:48 PM)Juniper Wrote: (07-25-2018, 07:51 PM)tvguy Wrote: NOW DEQ says the AQI is 236.. VERY UNHEALTHY but it's been the same f***ing day
I didn't see it that high today....but I have. Every evening around 5 to 7 it seems to get worse. The little light on the purifier goes to red, but I don't need to see that to know, I just start to feel worse and worse. Now the AQI is reading 197.
Just wondering .Have you looked at your furnace filters?
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(07-25-2018, 08:55 PM)tvguy Wrote: (07-25-2018, 08:48 PM)Juniper Wrote: (07-25-2018, 07:51 PM)tvguy Wrote: NOW DEQ says the AQI is 236.. VERY UNHEALTHY but it's been the same f***ing day
I didn't see it that high today....but I have. Every evening around 5 to 7 it seems to get worse. The little light on the purifier goes to red, but I don't need to see that to know, I just start to feel worse and worse. Now the AQI is reading 197.
Just wondering .Have you looked at your furnace filters?
Come show me.
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But then it gets better. I can feel it get better and sure enough, the little light goes blue.
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(07-25-2018, 06:23 PM)tvguy Wrote: (07-25-2018, 05:29 PM)chuck white Wrote: (07-25-2018, 04:21 PM)tvguy Wrote: (07-25-2018, 04:01 PM)Valuesize Wrote: Try this.
https://postimages.org/
That works very well. No mote Tinypic for me... Thanks
I'll have to switch over
This is the air quality in Grants Pass. It's not a 'AQ" number but actual concentration in micrograms per cubic meter.
That tells me nothing
And what the AQ index tell you?
to convert from AQindex to ugrams/CM
https://www.airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=...calculator
A AQI of 100 would be 154 ug/CM
50 would be 54 ug/CM
200 would be 254 ug/CM
and a 500 tops out at 604ug/CM
Anything over 604 pegs the AQI at 500
The AQI uses a 24 hr average
the chart above are 15 min average.
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Down to 66? It's been a while.
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Actually opened our house windows this morning and went for a walk/jog last night.
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Like a breath of fresh air!
With a piquant smell of smoke.
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(07-26-2018, 08:42 PM)Juniper Wrote: Down to 66? It's been a while.
I bet the people at Country Crossing were thanking God. The wind blew the smoke away lat evening. All I could see was a haze in the west. But now it's 165
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