Sunday the Garnet Fire jumped to a new area with plenty of dead trees and no burn history. We noticed, though we are fifty miles away.
@markstoneman Yes, but I also built a Corsi Rosethal box out of K&N MERV 13 filters. That’s a mouthful, but basically it keeps the air indoors in great shape.
@cliffordbeshers That’s good. I just use Levoit air purifiers, but our smoke in NH tends to be second-hand from the Canadian plains and points further west. I’ve still needed to wear a mask outside on so-called “code orange” days (as I learned to call them in DC), the kind where the haze is visible on the ground and my asthma reacts. Been enjoying blue skies lately, though. These pictures remind me of the first air filters and masks I ever bought: for my son in Berkeley sometime before the pandemic. There were none on the shelves after the smoke enveloped that small city.
@markstoneman I remember the photos from that event. Being east of the Sierra forests, I’ve seen a number of dark events. Currently, my PurpleAir sensor was running above 300 AQI for several days, still above 150. Hoping for a change of wind direction this evening for some relief.
@cliffordbeshers Yikes! The only time I ever got a little close to that was a drive in 2022 from DC to NH. the haze in MD and NJ turned to smoke rolling around like heavy fog on the roads in NYC and CT.