Sunday, September 19, 2010

Sunday 09/19/2010 Air Pollution

Another day, more wood smoke in the air. The recreational burning started a early today. Probably a fireplace. There was wood smoke in the air by early afternoon.

4:20 AM: A very faint trace of wood smoke lingers in the air.

7:00 AM: Fresh air!

1:25 PM: Very faint to faint wood smoke comes and goes. We have a couple windows open. They will need to be closed.

1:38 PM: Light wood smoke. It varies with the wind.

2:25 PM: Light wood smoke coming and going on the wind. 62 degrees and sunny. Does anyone need to use a fireplace when it is 62 degrees and sunny? Couldn't the burner cook some food and heat up their house?

3:00 PM: No smoke.

3:20 PM: No smoke.

4:45 PM: Very faint to faint wood smoke at this time. 63 degrees and sunny.

5:50 PM: Light wood smoke.

6:15 PM: No smoke.

7:00 PM: No smoke. The air is not fresh but I cannot detect any smoke in it.

8:15 PM: A very faint wood smoke is in the air. Not much, just enough to smell it.

9:00 PM: Very faint wood smoke continues. 55 degrees at this time.

9:50 PM: No smoke.

10:50 PM: No smoke. Last check of the evening.

It was not very smoky this evening. We had some intermittent wood smoke in the early afternoon and some very faint wood smoke in the evening. There was no burning grass or leaves at all this weekend. Yards are full of leaves now. We will surely have some smoky air from burning leaves by this coming weekend.