Double whammy of pollution hits Valley’s air
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The double whammy hit the San Joaquin Valley on election day with violations of both the ozone and the particle pollution standards.
And it’s still a little tough to breathe this morning, as the photograph shows. I climbed a few flights of stairs and took this shot from the roof of The Fresno Bee.
If you check the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District web page, you’ll find it’s a no-burn day for folks in four counties. That means no wood burning in fireplaces and fireplace inserts.
If you’re interested in finding out about the air quality in your area, click on this air district page and look for the closest monitor.
This is a tough time of year for people with sensitive lungs. The particle pollution — think of microscopic soot, chemicals and other debris — seems to get a little worst toward the middle of the day. If ozone is the problem in your area today, look for it to spike in the afternoons.
Let’s hope a little breeze blows some of this stuff out as the weather cools in the next few days.
Responses
And the Valley Air Board stays silent. We need to bring back Spare the Air Days.
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Breathing in the filthy Fresno air.
Wow. 77µg/m³ of PM2.5 reading from 11 am to noon in Clovis. (Very Unhealthful) Was it a forest fire? Or just the disaggregated forest that goes up in flames each winter night and every winter morning in the city of Clovis? Up the flue and down your blackening lungs.
Earth-log resurrected! (sort of) Now please restore archives.
For anyone who still suffers from the delusion that our air pollution blows in from the Bay Area, please offer cogent explanation of why as soon as the wind from the NorthWest stops (see wind data at bottom of link) the particulates in Fresno begin to rise. (PM2.5‘s, Fresno County)