welcome to smoke season, eastern north america

[solarbird]

OKAY if you’re out east welcome to smoke season, I’m sorry, I’m seeing numbers out of New York City which are “Spokane surrounded by wildfires” bad, and that’s some bad, bad, bad shit.

The number you need to pay the most attention to is 2.5nm particles. Here’s what you need to build, fortunately it is easy and not expensive and it is MUCH BETTER than any casual filter you’ll buy of Amazon. You’ll need to replace the filter elements once a year or less even assuming a three-month fire season.

Those KF94 and N95 masks you were wearing for COVID? I hope you didn’t throw them out, because 1) COVID is still happening and long Covid is extremely nasty, 2) worn properly, they work GREAT on this kind of smoke.

This will be a recurring feature of your summers now. Not every year, but every couple, and not always this bad, but more than once this bad. Be ready.

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Comments

[librarygeek]

Thanks for reposting that! I'm in Southeast Pennsylvania.

I wear double masks inside any building NOT my own house or that of my best friends and epidemiologist, but I haven't been wearing them outside just walking my dog. I am today!

[solarbird]

I also recommend everyone build full-time air-recirculation into their houses and do so with MERV 15 (or at least 13, but you can do 15) filtration.

Guess what I did? And guess whose house smells normal during smoke season?