Friday, May 28, 2010

Friday 05/28/2010 Air Pollution

It's a holiday weekend. The air has to be smoky. The air is smoky every evening unless it rains or is too hot or cold. So, it will be a normal smoky hell of an evening.

4:30 PM: No wood smoke. There was no grass smoke all day. 86 degrees, sunny, a very fine day.

9:00 PM: No wood smoke yet. There will be. I was sitting outside at this time enjoying the nice evening air. A month from now, we will be eaten alive by mosquitoes. There are not many yet.

9:25 PM: A faint wood smoke has taken hold. Sitting outside will soon become unbearable thanks to the regular evening wood smoke, so I will have to head inside. We are prisoners in our own home again.

9:30 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke. It got smoky quickly this evening. It does not appear any of our immediate neighbors is burning. It could be someone a block or two away, or more. 76 degrees.

It's another smoky hell of an evening. Do you want to live in a city like this?

10:35 PM: Faint to light wood smoke. The air pollution is tapering off.

10:52 PM: Moderate to strong wood smoke. The air is very smoky right now. This is one of the smokiest nights of the spring. The wood smoke is so strong you cannot stand to breathe the air! Spending a few seconds outside will leave your clothes reeking of wood smoke like you spent hours in a smoky bar.

11:30 PM: Light to moderate wood smoke continues.

The wood smoke decreased after midnight. When I woke at 4 AM, the air was fresh. I never did find out where the smoke was coming from. I was in no mood to go out looking for it. Doing that would have required a shower and a change of clothes because I would have reeked of wood smoke from head to toe.