Gregory's ServerWow. This is what New York's skyline looks like right now due to the smoke from the Canadian wildfires.
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  @luckytran Wow! It's even worse now. I think it best if people in New York not breathe unless wearing N95 masks, indoors or out. That's awful!! @simmagolda @luckytran Decades, or forever, with an occasional break for winter, while winters still mean snow.... OMG! That's awful! CA has been there as have Oregon, Washington, Nevada, etc. Hoping those fighting the fires in Canada remain safe and can get this fire contained.   @luckytran yep! And even the Appalachian Mountains are covered in smoke and itโs not from the Smokies! ...they could just have waited a few years to film the new Bladerunner without Greenscreens. New York becomes New Orange tRUMP must think its all about adoring him. No Donald, you choke people differently! @luckytran this is giving me flashbacks to the day of no sun in 2020 in San Francisco @lennart Det รคr fruktansvรคrt. Jag kollade webbkameran, det stรคmmer. https://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/skyline/?cam=skyline_g @luckytran it's odd that other shots from that area have a different color. wonder what's casing the differences @pxlmo @luckytran Probably changes in reflected light wavelength due to the additional density of particulate matter in the first image. I guess the easiest way to explain it is why the horizon looks orange at sunset but not orange right where you're standing. Focal length, distance, camera angle, sun angle, aperture width, sensor and lens differences (age, type) Mainly: looking straight out into miles of smoke is going to look different than looking up or down through it, especially to different cameras anecdotally, I've noticed my iphone often gets atmospheric color "wrong" - it's color-correcting the image automatically, assuming the unusual ambiance is undesirable @pxlmo @luckytran You're comparing two medium shots, one angled upwards and the other downwards, with a long shot aimed at the horizon. The reason these don't look the same is the reason you'll never find the base of a rainbow. @mondo @luckytran and Philly. But I was actually pointing to the lack of action on Climate Chaos by our Government.   @luckytran thatโs what Portland looked like a few years back, but our wildfires were only 30 miles away! @luckytran @maique We just came back from there and thank goodness it wasnโt like that when we were there. @luckytran Please help us put them out. We cannot contain them ourselves because we have so much forest. Help us save them, so we can clearcut them and sell them to you at walmart prices. @luckytran  @luckytran ๐ฑ @luckytran Seeing the effects down to Washington, DC as well. Here's a nice explainer of how the US National Science Foundation is funding science to better understand fires: https://mas.to/@JBWest/110503862795509149 @luckytran The particulate matter within the smoke is toxic and deadly to those with heart conditions for example.   @luckytran A couple of years back in west Sydney Australia it was very much like this. Glaciers in New Zealand were stained by the soot & ash. NZ is a 3 hour jet aircraft flight from Sydney @luckytran Glad I was in the Big Apple last week. I have lived through this hellish air too many times. Last time itโs health effects lasted months even with masking and heavy duty diy air filters. I used 18โ box fans with duct tape holding standard hvac filter elements in place. Turned black-brown in two days. What happened in these 30 minutes that made it so vividly orange? Also, you can view traffic cameras throughout the city here: https://511ny.org/   We're in DC. Not nearly as bad here, but wife was wearing her R-Pur, today, while running errands. Sunset ought to be great, though.   @luckytran Damnโฆ and I thought The Gap was bad early last week. I think in the height of our bushfires around 2019 was nowhere near that bad. Is the proximity of the Hudson River (moist, cool misty air) maybe helping trap some of the smoke? Hope it clears soon!  @Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: Looks so cool! Climate is cool. I mean, a bit hot hot hot, obviously. But yeah, let's go on posting a lotta cool images about hot hot hot climate things. That's so cool.
   @luckytran #NewYork #CanadaFires #smoke This is an excellent time for East Coast people to organize petitions to get their legislators to draft/pass California-style climate change laws mandating % decreases in fossil fuel production/use by X date. THIS IS THE TIME to transition justly to CLEAN JOBS - to save lives globally. @luckytran so - when they release white smoke it means they've chosen a new pope. Does this mean that if they release orange smoke, they've indicted Trump?  From The Weather Channel: Timelapse shows how quickly NYC turned orange @luckytran i live near Seattle. In the last 5 years smoke like that has become an every other year occurrence. I literally cannot remember it ever happening the previous 30 years. @luckytran as a Canadian, I feel strangely compelled to apologize on behalf of the fires. |
@luckytran Seriously?!?!?!