Oh, dear. My not so cheerful take on “micro” today is the tiny particles in the air from the fires. The sky held this front yesterday and the weather changed. The air was brownish by afternoon. Yesterday at 5 the Air Quality Index was 36, not too awful. This am it is 78 here, though a map of Washington State AQI shows that it is really severe in Eastern Washington. Fire season.
The screen shot is from here.
I set up my home air filter: a box fan and four filters. I had my windows open last night and woke with a headache from the air. It also makes me irritable. When I really smell the smoke, my brain keeps sounding an alarm: “Fire! fire!” I have to reassure it: yes, there is a fire, but it is not here right now. Cross your fingers. Now I’ve closed the house and have the fan running. Inelegant but very effective at filtering the tiny particles and cleaning up the air.
Consider wearing an N95 if you have to be out. We do not want those tiny micro particles in our lungs. I am holed up in the house today. We may have rain tomorrow which will quiet it down.
When the air gets really bad, the cats even refuse to go out.
Be careful out there.
For the Ragtag Daily Prompt: micro.
Filter instructions: https://encycla.com/Corsi-Rosenthal_Cube.
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AQI 36 “not too awful”? I don’t remember when I last saw a number that low except maybe briefly right after a thunderstorm. This is the summer that I added AQI to temperature and dew point as my major indicators of comfort. Our forecast for today is “good” (i.e. <50) but we're not there yet.
I think my lungs are a bit hypersensitive and by PFTs have some scarring after four pneumonias. Yes, we might have much better air quality than many places and many cities. I can tell when the AQI starts rising though.
I totally understand. Your lungs probably feel it sooner than most. Since I’m too sick to spend much time outside, it isn’t bothering me.
Sending healing thoughts and wishes.
The AQI is up to 107 and rising.
I can’t “like” that comment. 107 with bad lungs is no fun. Burning eyes don’t help, either.
You are in Wisconsin?
Yes, and with a dew point of 73ΒΊ, the heat index is now over 100. The real world didn’t seem to get the forecast and they changed the forecast instead. AQI is staying in the 50s.