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I can hear fireworks shows, so here's the current air quality for Los Angeles from purple air's 2.5 pm sensors
in reply to Diane

Looks like we're almost back to our regular Los Angeles bad air.

Here's a plot from my home assistant instance that's reading my closest airnow.gov/ AQI indicator.

Air now's measurements differ from purple air in they're more accurate where the sensor is, and includes ozone in the air quality measurement, but there's far fewer sensors than with purple air.

Also the purple air sensors measure particulate pollution which is a big chunk of what fireworks and fires produce. Ozone is more a product of combustion or volatile organic compounds.

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And funny thing about those volatile organic compounds (VOCs) apparently we've gotten enough emission controls onto our cars that now heat stressed trees are turning into the largest source of ozone precursor molecules

"Combining results with temperature patterns down to a resolution of 4 kilometers squared (about 2.5 miles squared), the team determined that botanical sources of VOCs, which include compounds like isoprene, monoterpenes, and sesquiterpenes, contributed to around 60 percent of the potential formation of secondary organic aerosols at the start of the LA summer."

sciencealert.com/trees-have-be…





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