3h Detroit, Chicago, D.C. and New York are the four most polluted major cities in the world early Friday.

[riversedge]

Link to tweet

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[31j20b3]

1. At 312 AQI Milwaukee would right now be worse than DC, But

No one gives a F*** about Milw because, it's Milw doncha know.

I suspect Duluth might be worse than Milw. and it's odd there is no downwind Canadian city mentioned either

[CrimsonBight]

5. It was over 600 in Marquette, MI.

Milwaulkee is the popular kid in class next to literally anywhere in the Upper Peninsula.

[31j20b3]

6. Terrible but I'm not surprised, Yesterday I saw a 969 somewhere in the Arrowhead of MN

and Milw AQI was at 646 mid-day

Must be terrible for people with lung problems...

It's back to the 1800's for N AM forests... what doesn't get harvested ultimately burns. The US had awful fires in the late 1800s. That's when the combination ax and hoe called the Pulaski was invented byand named for a US forest ranger

[Bluestocking]

2. You can blame the Canadian wildfires for that

Boston was pretty bad too

[Celerity]

3. and this is why

Link to tweet

[Kaleva]

4. A town nearby has an air quality index of 570

In the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

A couple of mornings ago, there was ash all over our car .

[31j20b3]

7. Harkening back to old technology... Forest Service has people in canoes trying to reach campers

who need to be evacuated but who might not have gotten the message.