Experts say current air quality recommendations for public spaces are not sufficient to prevent small particulate matter, including pollutants in smoke, from circulating indoors.
granger township in, around cleveland. 328 parts per million is your number right now. that is certainly hazardous for you to be breathing out there. i had a meter last time we did this. the meter here in atlanta was 80 parts per million outside but it was six on the inside so a 12 fold better air quality on the inside. that s why they say stay inside if you absolutely can. all these areas here in kind of this orange, maroon, purple and red, that s the air quality index we re seeing now. this is what it looks like from one of the computer models. where is the smoke worse? champaign, no picnic. i m going the move this ahead until tomorrow. you ll notice some of the orange begins to go away but we re still left with all of the yellow here. it begins to mix around again. and we see some thunderstorms in the mix on the west side. those thunderstorms will absorb some of those smoke particles
by wildfire smoke, it is transported from the west coast several thousand kilometres away, but in this instance, the fires are in quebec, less than a thousand kilometres away in the fires are abnormally large, especially for this time of year. so the smoke was transported very efficiently and has led to very hazardous conditions. conditions. one of the residents conditions. one of the residents we - conditions. one of the residents we spoke i conditions. one of the residents we spoke to | conditions. one of the l residents we spoke to in philadelphia said he had an asthmatic son, his wife also struggles with it as well. people are obviously and understandably very concerned. is it possible to shield yourself effectively from smoke particulates? it yourself effectively from smoke particulates? particulates? it is, yes. the main health particulates? it is, yes. the main health issue particulates? it is, yes. the main health issue in - particulates? it is, yes. the| main health is
necessary precautions. thanks. bill, is there any help in sight? eventually. not yet. this is day three in new york city. this is really it looks like the color swaths when you are about to paint a room going from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in new york city. the reason that the air starts to look orange or martian-like by the time we get to 1:00 or 2:00 is the thicker the smoke particles, the green and blue wave lengths get refracted. you get red and orange hues go through. a lot of us can t wait to see that baby blue sky once again like we showed you monday. it s not today. today we still have dangerous and hazardous conditions. it shifted. yesterday, it was horrible syracuse to scranton to albany to new york city. it shifts south.