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Almost 02:30 here in #Edmonton and guess what?

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Radio personality Ruby Rhod of The Fifth Element shortly before he responds to the question "Green?" with "Supergreen!" whilst being held by the neck by a displeased live on-air guest.

Ruby stares intently towards the camera after just arriving on-scene. He has white hair upswept into a cylindrical bun just above his forehead, a lowcut, skintight animal-print suit with a tall collar that is almost off-the-shoulder, wearing a silver pendant on a choker and a headset with a red light nwar his mouth indicating his radio feed is live. Between his left index finger and thumb he delicately holds a sceptre with an ornate tip. The pattern on the body of the sceptre matches Ruby's suit.

You have to watch out though, as the value it shows may not be that of your own neighbourhood. According to Air Visual Edmonton's air isn't great but is somewhere in the 50s range.

Click on Edmonton and scroll down to the map. Click on the map and zoom in for the rather nastier granular detail. 😢

My area is closer to 180-200 today.

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Special #AirQuality statement from #EnvironmentCanada just issued: #wildfire #smoke warning in effect for #Edmonton and area until Friday evening.

We are also once again at #TenPlus on the #AHQI scale of 1-10. 🙄

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Ooof. Not entirely sure where this is coming from but amid the cooling rain tonight has somehow arrived rather terrible #AirQuality.

😬😢

Maps seem to show this scattered somewhat randomly through the city plus of course higher levels heading westward towards #YellowheadCounty.

#MaskUp, folks!

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*choke* *cough* *gasp*

WTF is going on? It's waaaay too late for the neighbour's laundry scent to be suffocating me.

*checks #AirQuality for city*

Ah, I see. It's just all gone to crap tonight. 🙄😡

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Crappy #AirQuality at the moment folks. Seems to be citywide: I don't know the source.

Hopefully it won't last long. 😬

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We had a brief lull in the #ToxicAir this evening. Alas, it was insuffucient to drop the indoor temperature by even a single °C before I had to close windows and doors or risk spending the night coughing instead of breathing.

And tomorrow will be another hot one, plus a few degrees of #humidity.

😡

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I see we're back to 10+ again for #AirQuality here in #Edmonton today, surely the most useless measurement on a 1-10 scale ever devised.

🙄

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Notifications from Environment and Climate Change Canada showing that at 12:44 on Saturday, September 7, 2024, our air quality, on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the worst, is "10+".

Updated smoke forecast for Alberta & adjacent areas, from Environment Canada:
https://weather.gc.ca/firework/firework_anim_e.html?type=em&utc=12&region=prairies

Good news: They predict clear air in Edmonton for most of the day Friday (tomorrow), as strong winds from the northwest put us right in the gap between smoke from the northern fires and the mountain fires.

Bad news: They seem to be predicting a massive increase in fire activity in the Rockies / Kootenays on Saturday. Probably because of all those strong, swirling winds.

#YEGaq #WildfireSmoke

QUICK #EDMONTON, while the #AirQuality is far from perfect it is the BEST it has been in days and (nearing 01:00 MT) appears still to be improving!!!

Even better, the air is COOL!

Vent and cool while you can, folks! 🙂

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Alas, I didn't have the opportunity to say that last bit though, because as I noted, the nitwit was bravely doing a drive-by, barely-intelligble as it was. 🙄

Probably best I didn't add to his distractions in the smoke-laden air.

😂😂😂

2/2

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Two pieces of good news for today:

The Environment Canada smoke forecast says Edmonton might get a good gap of clear air for a few hours around noon. 🤞 #YEGaq #YEGwx

My mum and I will be installing my new air conditioner, so I can have cool air without smoke tomorrow night. 🙏

PS: "I don't know how hot it got" because my old bimetal furnace thermostat maxes out at 30°C. Which it is still reading, but it's definitely cooler now than it was yesterday evening.

Amazed to learn today via CBC News that @CityofEdmonton has an air hazard protocol AND it includes making #N95 masks freely available at city facilities!

Excellent to see. Please keep it up. ❤️

(PS: And consider continuing to use that N95 even when the air LOOKS clean, because #CovidIsNotOver!)

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4:40am, awake, need to refill my water mug, might as well check the AQ see if its safe to let that cool morning air inside.

Darnit.

Enjoy your clear air, Entwhistle.

Edited to tag: #YEGwx #YEGaq #WildfireSmoke

Map from aqicn.org or the greater Edmonton area with flags indicating air quality readings (numbers on the US EPA scale). Edmonton itself is smothered with red unhealthy and purple very unhealthy flags, up to AQI 266. 100km west of the city, however, the air is still in the yellow moderate zone, AQI 66 in the village of Entwhistle.

@AmeliasBrain

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Thanks for the heads-up!

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Heads up, Edmonton!

Environment Canada is predicting that heavy smoke will reach us about noon Friday. And before then, possible patchy smoke will pass over us tonight.

With new lightning-started fires the past 2 days in hot & dry forests both north & west of us, it's likely that next week will be very smokey indeed. Whether it will be smokey enough to cut the heat wave short remains to be seen.

Bad news for those of us relying on fresh early morning air to stay cool!

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Map of the Canadian prairies with regions of colour representing PM2.5 levels from wildfire smoke plumes. Model Run 2024-07-18 12Z; forecast for 2024-07-19 18UTC (aka noon Mountain Daylight Time). The most intense smoke is coming from fires in northeast BC, blowing east to blend with more sources in northeast Alberta & northwest Saskatchewan, before getting pushed south by a clear air mass over Hudson Bay. But there are also clouds blowing in all along the Rocky mountains and spreading east along the American border, with only a few 100km of clear air over the prairies between the two smoke masses. Clear air that no longer includes the Edmonton area, in this forecast.

Edmonton: If you have to be outside this afternoon, note that there's an air quality warning for smog pollutants, which may not show up on your particulate-based air quality apps. (PM2.5 is still in the moderate range)

https://weather.gc.ca/airquality/pages/abaq-001_e.html

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I've been sincerely and deeply grateful that the past few weeks have been completely unlike the May 5, 2023-to-October(?) conditions of last year, including generally good air quality.

It's been a wonderful, gentle spring and summer.

But now, full-on anxiety is back in force for the foreseeable future. 😢

(At least #solstice is past so our nights stretch slightly longer every passing day!)

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Current forecast from today (Wednesday, July 3 at 19°C) steadily rising daily to 34°C in a few days, and remaining well above 30° to the end of the forecast for Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 53°N latitude.

Just after I post about fire risk increasing in northern Alberta & the NWT, I go to rest a bit in the other room, that has the window open, & notice a distinct smell of smoke. 😣

It looks like the worst of the smoke is going to pass north & east of Edmonton over the next few days (see forecast), but those forecasts are notoriously unreliable so I guess I'm back to checking AQ any time I go out or open a window.

Bad air just when it gets hot out. Great.

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Map of central & northern Alberta from aqicn.org, with coloured flags showing air quality readings using the US EPA scale. There is an approximate diagonal division passing from the northwest to the southeast, running through the Edmonton area in the middle: the the south and west of the line, polution readings are all very low, in green. To the north and east, readings are marked in yellow and orange, up to 142 AQI. (Which is still much, much less than the worst it gets.)

Edmonton smoke update: Uggggghhhhh.

(Chart from the Alberta Capital Airshed live map, which has rather annoying UI but there is good data if you click around.)

The weather forecast is still saying rain tonight or tomorrow, so that's something. Not as good news as rain in the places that are currently burning, but at least I might be able to skip masking up to go out & water the garden.

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