Fire season has started in the West

Yeah, CARB must be providing them. If you go to the PurpleAir map and do a search for your air quality management district i.e. shastaaqmd, bcaqmd, fraqmd in the sensor name, you will see a list of them starting with CARB_SMOKE_SHASTAAQMD_xxxx. I found 10 of them for SHASTAAQMD. Actually, there may be more. I think they only list the first 10.

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Looks like we just got another push of smoke into our area. The AQI went from 160 to 210. The TV weatherman said last night it was supposed to get better today, NOT.


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It’s been bad around here too. It hasn’t dropped below 100 AQI since Nov. 8. You can see the big spike we had today on the chart where it got up to over 200 AQI. It’s dropped back down to around 180 since then.


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Very bad here in the South SF bay area today > 280 AQI. Cough, Hack.

Smoke from the Camp Fire seems to be pooling down here today.


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Something not right about your graph lines
Ken
Harry,s ones look OK though

I noticed that too. I don’t know what heck is going on but, AQ has definitely gotten worse again, back up to over 200 AQI and no wind. We didn’t have a new fire pop up somewhere did we?

Edit: I guess this is the reason why. This fire is not even 10 miles from me and started about the same time our AQ went south.

Niles Fire
Niles Fire Incident Information:
Last Updated: November 14, 2018 5:23 pm
Date/Time Started: November 14, 2018 2:56 pm
Administrative Unit: CAL FIRE Santa Clara Unit
County: Alameda County
Location: off Palomares Road Niles Canyon Road, northwest of Sunol
Acres Burned - Containment: 20 acres - 30% contained. Forward spread stopped.
Long/Lat: -121.94182/37.61158


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Mine is looking better this morning after I switched on ‘Use local data’ for the primary sensorid.


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Stagnant, smoky air here at the head of the valley today :roll:

Butte County doesn’t seem to be doing a very good job of sheltering Camp fire evacuees resulting in a large tent city having sprung up in the Walmart parking lot :frowning:

AQI has been bouncing the 200 mark here all day. Ventured outside for a while and all you can see everywhere is haze and smoke with visibility about a mile. And just when thought things couldn’t get worse:

http://www.ktvu.com/news/air-quality-worsens-and-is-expected-to-last-for-at-least-five-more-days

http://www.ktvu.com/news/bay-area-schools-universities-close-because-of-unhealthy-air-quality

Not telling you anything you don’t know, but interesting that Auntie BBC mentions Purple Air here before the EPA/AirNow. . . and quotes meaningless cigarette-equivalents.

Hope things get better for you guys soon.

You can add Amador County Air District to the list of PurpleAir users. I also noticed 4 new PurpleAir sensors came online in my area the last couple of days. Purpleair is getting quite a boost. Rain in the forecast on Wednesday and rest of the week which should finally clear out the smoke, hope, hope, hope.

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https://www.amadorgov.org/services/amador-air-district

Also, a lot of good info here plus links to all the California air quality management districts: http://californiasmokeinfo.blogspot.com/

The smoke is finally gone and the air quality is back to normal. Hoorah!!!


Light rain but AQ still in the 150’s here :frowning:

Sorry about that Niko… we’re at AQI zero now, thanks to 0.34in of rain so far.


We’ve had 0.19" which I would have expected to clean the air, but without any wind I guess it’s just brought high level smoke down to earth :roll:

I think it was more the southwesterly wind from the ocean that helped clear out the smoke. The rain was helpful, but the clean air from the Pacific was likely the bigger factor.


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Good point! You’ve had some nice wind there :smiley:

What’s the source of those charts?

Those are from WeeWX

Interesting, I’ve tinkered with WeeWX but never got very far :lol: I like the wind vector chart, I’ve been looking for something like that.