Air Quality Monitoring

[+ FrankR]

It looks like the Canadian wildfires will impact the air quality here in the USA again this week. 

Are you aware of a reliable website that provide accurate air quality ratings and forecasts?

I have googled a bit, but some of the ones showing up at the top of the list seems a little sketchy. 

[+ Pensant]

iPhones have a weather app that shows the AQI for any town in the world. We hover around 20: pristine, except when we get smoke from BC and Eastern Washington and Oregon forest fires.

[cany10011]

I use accuweather. Today, in NYC, it's rated as poor, with an AQI of 92. 

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/new-york/10021/weather-forecast/349727

I consider myself pretty fit, but it's hard just walking a few blocks when the AQI is poor. 

[MikeBiDude]

The Air Quality Management District (AQMD) keeps a close eye on things here in SoCal. I am on their email list, so I know when we have “no burn“ days when wood cannot be burned. I have a neighbor that turns me in if I use my smoker, or even my BBQ on no burn days. I receive wildfire smoke alerts and other air quality alerts them them as well:

The South Coast AQMD has issued a new air quality advisory.

High Ozone Alert

 

[Luv2play]

We're getting smoke today but the sun is shining through so it appears as haze in the distance and the sky is not quite blue.  

Temperatures are great though and a breeze and no humidity. Wish the smoke would disappear 

[maninsoma]

airnow.gov is definitely not sketchy.

Nor is purpleair.com, though the problem with the latter is that there are usually some people whose devices are clearly not working properly.  For example, there might be a stray reading that indicates there air quality is good when all of the surrounding devices are accurately showing poor air quality.  When you limit the results to outdoor only readers and look at a reasonably sized area, though, it's easy to ignore those outliers.