Sunday, September 25, 2011

Today's Air Quality Index

The Air Quality Index measures how much smog, dust particles, toxic stuff, etc is in your air.  Check out today's reading in your city!   

Atlanta GA             54
Elk Grove CA        49
Princeton NJ          40
Miami FL               21
Charlotte NC          21
  Beijing China           332

Woo-wee, check out that triple digit number next to my home sweet *cough* home!  My eyes are red and itchy and I have a headache.  On the bright side,  the AQI varies wildly from day to day.  It's going to rain later in the week, which should bring the number down significantly (as low as the 30s).  Until then I'll be wearing classes instead of contacts, drinking lots of water, and staying indoors!  
My image darkened by the hazardous Beijing air!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

If you go out, you'll need to wear those masks. I think I will bring some with me when I visit.

Mom

Jess / Stew Stew said...

Mom you/I will be one of the only ones. That's a Taiwan(/Japanese?) thing for sure!

Anonymous said...

wow that sounds very stifling , but with all wonderful advantages (such as teaching college students in China), there are bound to be disadvantages.

I hope the rain brought down to the 30s!

-caroline