we live in PDX and our quality has been poor for the last few weeks but it's been coming and going. the area near Mt Hood and in the southern parts have been the worst, occasionally near the hazardous level.

https://oraqi.deq.state.or.us/home/map

and the smoke is terrible. Our city is in a valley surrounded by mountains and none of which are visible from the valley floor. The wind is blowing but all it is doing is swirling the smoke around. August and September used to be incredible here in the inland northwest. Now we are covered in smoke year after year after year...and usually until the first mountain snows come in early October. Climate change deniers need to come up and enjoy this for a while and get back to me.

standards go into effect

and climate change gets into high gear with more and more forests burning and hotter and hotter days

we are SO FUCKED

For some reason so far it has been better compared to last year here in Eugene, but that could change at any time.

Still we have haze and moderate air quality conditions based on the map posted above. I feel bad for people to our north that has to live with such extreme smoke and poor air quality.

Yesterday when a car drove down my street to the
end of the 600 foot block, it disappeared from view completely
before getting to corner. Pollution index was over 350.

We are not any better and it’s smokey every August but this year started mid July with lightning fires. We bought RV when we bought home to leave in August, we are at coast now. I love it there Oct-June but boy is summer getting worse every year!