Gently reminding everyone that a well-fitting N95 mask can filter out a lot of particulates. Particularly helpful for people with asthma going outside, but tbh, on days like this I just wear them everywhere. I'm already wearing them in indoor spaces to protect me from covid, why not keep it on outside to protect me from smoke
Im near the largest number there and what is scary is this is not the worst it has been. Its kinda funny as we are not located where the wildfires are but the winds or something bring almost all of them to us. North, south, east, and west.
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz · 43 pts · 54d
Don't worry we can fix it with AI if we build more datacenters!!!
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 53d
Well, if we burn it all then there won’t be anything left to burn.
cts@midwest.social · 29 pts · 54d
What is this measuring?
jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 54d
Smoke from the wildfires.
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 4 pts · 53d
Are the numbers the amount of fires? And the little orange dots are the fires?
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 53d
I believe they're air quality stations, based on the PM
2.5scale in the lower leftrants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 1 pts · 53d
No, that's the scale for the colour gradients on the map.
jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 52d
Yes, the dots at this scale are mostly major groups of fires. When you zoom in the dots fan out to give more localized info.
I've zoomed in on Florida in the image attached to this reply so you can see better. You can see the individual fires have the flames icon.
rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social · 1 pts · 52d
That is an insane amount of fires
lokalhorst@feddit.org · 14 pts · 54d
PM2.5 is Particulate Matter that can penetrate into your lungs. It is mostly emitted by combustion engines, but in this case it's from wildfires.
foxymochakitten@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 53d
Gently reminding everyone that a well-fitting N95 mask can filter out a lot of particulates. Particularly helpful for people with asthma going outside, but tbh, on days like this I just wear them everywhere. I'm already wearing them in indoor spaces to protect me from covid, why not keep it on outside to protect me from smoke
jesusactuallyhateshorses@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 52d
Important information indeed.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 53d
Im near the largest number there and what is scary is this is not the worst it has been. Its kinda funny as we are not located where the wildfires are but the winds or something bring almost all of them to us. North, south, east, and west.