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EPA’s Air Quality App Is More Popular Than Facebook Right Now (gizmodo.com)

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New York City claims the title of having the worst air quality of any city on Earth Wednesday due to smoke from Canadian wildfires.

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[–] StringTheory@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’d like to also suggest the Fire Air Now site for anyone interested in wildfire smoke dispersion: https://fire.airnow.gov/

[–] CCatMan@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

Amazing site. Thanks!

[–] smstnitc@lemmy2.addictmud.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is really cool, thanks for sharing. I hadn't even realized we were in danger until I read this and started looking at the site you linked (I'm in the Detroit area).

[–] StringTheory@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

It has a mix of data from home sensors that hobbyists put up at their houses and “official” sensors. If you fine tune to your neighborhood you can see precisely what’s happening with the air quality on your block. (If someone has a sensor.). Sometimes you’ll see one weird reading from someone’s sensor being too close to their BBQ, but not often.

A friend of mine volunteered to host a sensor on his roof, which is how I found out about this. There are other apps and sites that use the same data and make it look prettier, but I like the original .gov site just fine.