The air quality in the Bay Area right now is as bad as Beijing

[TampaChinnodu]

San Franciscans woke up Thursday morning breathing air as polluted as that in Beijing, a city known for its suffocating gray haze. 

Some people wore masks as they walked or rode their bikes to work—an uncommon sight in the Bay Area. 

"These fires are bringing Beijing to the Bay Area and are allowing us to see what they experience around the clock," says Richard Muller, a UC Berkeley professor of physics who co-founded the site Berkeley Earth, which tracks air quality around the globe with an interactive map. 

On the morning of Oct. 12, the amount of particulate matter in the area in some parts of San Francisco were in the 151-200 range on the air quality index, matching that in Beijing.

The Bay Area has been choking on wood smoke since Sunday night after wind-stoked fires broke in Napa and Sonoma counties. 

[TampaChinnodu]

situation intha bad aa vunda naa matta bay area lo

[vendetta]

headache vastundi 

[Piracy Raja]

[Piracy Raja]

Just now, vendetta said:

headache vastundi e pollution vilna

ekkada

[mastercheif]

9 minutes ago, vendetta said:

headache vastundi e pollution vilna

sfo lo  unnava ?

[Bhai]

8 minutes ago, Piracy Raja said:

ekkada

head lo anta

[Idassamed]

20 minutes ago, Bhai said:

head lo anta

Nee kyamedy tagileyya

[Bhai]

Just now, Idassamed said:

Nee kyamedy tagileyya

  can't match @tortoise

[ARYA]

yes, yesterday was bad..motham edo early morning fog la pattesindi...today is relatively better...this is in the Trivalley area

[Batman_fan]

[tennisluvr]

Due to the Northern California fires

[Quickgun_murugan]

28 minutes ago, Bhai said:

head lo anta

[boeing747]

[Bhai]

43 minutes ago, Quickgun_murugan said:

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