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DrBabs t1_it29xdy wrote

Reply to comment by SounderBruce in Air quality around Seattle ranked worst in the world by SounderBruce

Go back ten years and we never had a fire season like this creating months of smoke in the air.

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stupidpunname54 t1_it2lsi4 wrote

Yup... when I was a kid we had clean air, less drought and plenty of water. I've never seen such a warm October in my life.

As today progresses, we should see wind coming from the west build up and clear us out. Hopefully...

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manbearcolt t1_it2mcdh wrote

I live in South Dakota (near the border with Minnesota). They just got ~5" of snow in Minnesota. It's supposed to be 85 on Sunday. October twenty fucking third in (essentially) southern Canada.

Boy oh boy I'm glad climate change is a hoax, because that would really suck if it were real...

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stupidpunname54 t1_it31fjp wrote

From freezing to 85 in fall... that is wild.

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DigitalSterling t1_it3cvgx wrote

I wanna say denver hit like 90 in December last year and had a wildfire pop off before it snowed like 6" the next day

Edit: I was mistaken, or misremembered where it had the 90 degree figure from. Denver did spend most of last December well above freezing though

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squeakycheetah t1_it2tan2 wrote

I'm north of you in Southern B.C. The wind hit this morning and it didn't smell like campfire when I took the dog out. The smoke is pretty much gone now and it's cloudy and cool instead of sunny and 20° already. Hopefully you guys are next and get some clean air today.

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stupidpunname54 t1_it315js wrote

Wind will start picking up here around 10 or 11, i hope. Still sitting well over 200ppm in my area.

I haven't been able to run all week. I tried one day and it felt like I smoked all of my weed in one go. Enjoy the fresh air!

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gburdell t1_it40u73 wrote

2015 was short sleeves weather well into October in Seattle

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Cimatron85 t1_it39gq4 wrote

That’s because memories are notoriously known to be not accurate.

https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/seattle/month-october/monthly-average-temp

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stupidpunname54 t1_it3yfc8 wrote

And when I was a kid. The average temperature never reached 56.5 F. That is the current average temperature based off of the remaining highs and lows predicted for October.

The highest average during my child hood was 54.1F

So I think my memory, in this case, has served me well.

data source

Edit to add. 2014 saw 57f average. The highest in my lifetime. So this year ranks #2.

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