Wildfire Smoke Billows Into Valley ‘No Matter Which Way The Wind Is Blowing’

Related Articles

#Oakfire

July 26, 2022

Valley fever researchers have developed a vaccine—for dogs

November 17, 2021

In TED Talk, Irma Olguin Jr. shares how Bitwise uses tech to revitalize underdog cities

November 14, 2021

So far in 2020, thousands of wildfires have torched a record-setting 3.2 million acres in California. If that makes this wildfire season unprecedented, here and throughout the West Coast, so is our region’s resulting smog. In a press conference on Monday, Valley air officials said: Don’t expect the air to clear for at least a few more days, and possibly longer. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s AirNow tool , air quality on Monday afternoon varied from unhealthy in the southern Valley to hazardous in the north—a range in the Air Quality Index (AQI) from roughly 150 to 300—as a direct result of the acrid smoke that’s been blowing into the Valley by wildfires for weeks. Jonathan Klassen, director of Air Quality Science and Planning with the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, said this stretch of bad air has been historic, even in an air basin that routinely ranks among the most polluted in the country. “I don’t think we’ve had a widespread event with this
https://www.kvpr.org/sites/kvpr/files/styles/big_story/public/202009/AirNow2.png