Alm
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Air quality - puzzling.
Green is good, yellow is OK, orange is bad.
6.30pm, the bubble at Ciudad Constitucion reads Air Quality Index=51, at the border of green and yellow. AQI< 50 is considered safe or good.
And look at the big orange spot North of La Paz, and another one South of GN, where there is nothing but desert. Air quality worse than in Tijuana or
LA. https://www.weatherbug.com/air-quality/
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Be glad you're not in El Paso.
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what is it they are measuring? particulate? pm 10? 2.5? dust? carbon? CO, SMOG?
Knowing what they are actually measuring/ counting may help us understand the pattern!
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Cant be right. LA, San Diego and Phx are all green
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The generators producing electricity in La Paz for the Baja Sur are spewing pollution. I guess as long as it doesn’t effect Cabo it’s ok?
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Cities right on the Pacific coast, like San Diego, TJ, will usually have cleaner air than they would if not on the coast because the prevailing winds
are off the ocean. LA has a problem because of the mountains to the north and east which obstruct the airflow.
On the other hand, when the winds shift to offshore, like in a Santa Ana, the coastal cities air quality suffers.
Also, the map is a snapshot in time, things could be different 6 hours later.
Cool website.
[Edited on 5-23-2019 by SFandH]
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It's not "they". AQI index is used by the US EPA, it contains PM2.5, ground level ozone, CO and SO2. Probably other pollutants too, because if you
enter AQI value in AQI Calculator, you can get pollutants like PM10 and NO2 as well.
I suspect that hot spots away from the water are partly caused by the cr-ap coming from the farmlands, but it's still odd to see it that high. Yes,
picture is changing with time. It's often yellow-ish along the major highways.
I also noticed that popular hubs like SMA and North Chapala coast half the time are same yellow-orange as Guadalajara.
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Desel powered everything.
The ground water pumps.
The desal plants.
Maybe even some electrical power generators.
All the trucks
All the tractors.
The wind blowing it all around.
Farming is very dirty.
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In Vizcaino there is an oil fired power plant west of the hiway. It spews a nice brown cloud.
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There is always a haze in La Paz from the diesel powered electrical plant to the NE of the city. I wouldn't be surprised if the prevailing winds
pushing that pollution NW wouldn't be the main culprit.
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It could be a temporary weather phenomenon. An inversion, with warm air at altitude, could prevent all the crap from disbursing into the atmosphere!
[Edited on 5-23-2019 by AKgringo]
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$$$$$ Climatic Condition ?
" .......... could prevent all the crap from disbursing into the atmosphere! "
How about " dispersing " ?
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It could be dust too. We are just north of Constitucion in SJ and it looks like the Dust Bowl. Super strong winds blowing dust and sand all over.
Brown skies at times.
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Quote: Originally posted by Beagle  | | It could be dust too. We are just north of Constitucion in SJ and it looks like the Dust Bowl. Super strong winds blowing dust and sand all over.
Brown skies at times. |
Same here in Palm Springs and the valley. Can't keep it out of the house.
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all of the Baja power plants are among the dirtiest in Mexico.
Numbers are public and can be found on the web.
The cool pollution site above does not measure the cancer causing heavy metals that rain out of the dirt exhaust.
Has been studied for La Paz a number of times.
When you missed the chance to inhale the stuff - it ends up in the dirt and is kicked up by cars driving too fast on the many unpaved roads - you can
breathe it then.
If you missed that chance - don't worry.
The next rain will wash it into the ocean - you can still get your dose of Cadmium etc from "fresh" fish and shellfish.
Thus La Paz has one of the highest cancer rates in all of Mexico.
Ironically most of the power produced is for Los Cabos.
So, the air might not look too dirty, some might even say clean, but its the stuff you don't see that kills you.
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I seen this many times and it truly is a shame. And very unfair to the people who live near those plants.. within say 100 miles.
Solar and wind could probably replace them.
I love La Paz but that constant reminder...
There is another filthy one on Mag bay...
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La Paz has a solar plant big enough for the demands of la Paz - but Los Cabos, Los Barriles etc are very power hungry
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| Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo | It could be a temporary weather phenomenon. An inversion, with warm air at altitude, could prevent all the crap from disbursing into the atmosphere!
[Edited on 5-23-2019 by AKgringo] |
Wishful thinking at best.
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