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The sky in Western New York is a weird color today, and the weather service is warning of low air quality:
"The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation at Albany has issued an Air Quality Health Advisory for Fine Particulates until midnight EDT tonight. Air quality levels in outdoor air are predicted to be greater than an Air Quality Index value of 195 for Fine Particulates. The Air Quality Index...or AQI...was created as an easy way to correlate levels of different pollutants to one scale. The higher the AQI value...the greater the health concern."
I blame Canada:
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Out of control forest fires in Canada?
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Damn...
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Always appropriate.
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Not unprecedented. Happened a few years ago, and I think occasionally before that.
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I went outside to bring in the mail and water some plants, and after 5 minutes out there my eyes were burning.
Toronto has the worst air quality in the world today:
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