From the National Park Service

[hummingwolf]

National Park Service Web Cameras

The National Park Service operates digital cameras at many parks to help educate the public on air quality issues. These cameras often show the effects of air pollution such as visibility impairment. Because these cameras are typically located near air quality monitoring sites, the camera web pages display other information along with the photo such as current levels of ozone, particulate matter, or sulfur dioxide air pollutants, visual range, and weather conditions.

Here's the one for Washington, DC. Right now, I'd rather be in Denali.

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[xforge.livejournal.com]

This morning the radio said Atlanta was under a smog warning too; they played an interview with someone (a young-sounding woman) who said she went outside, discovered she could barely breathe, and went right back in the house.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, lots of places have nasty air quality today-- http://www.airnow.gov/ has details. Tomorrow's air should be more breathable (and cooler!) here, at least.

[paradigm-palace.livejournal.com]

Another great link!!!

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I care about my air quality. Could you tell? ;-)

[paradigm-palace.livejournal.com]

Last summer, my boyfriend and I drove from TN to FL for a vacation and we passed through Atlanta. I swear, even in the car, I almost coughed to death. Honestly, I could barely breathe.

By the way, I love that icon :)

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Y'know if I ever win the lottery...we should all take a trip to Alaska.

Denali really is one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I would love to visit Alaska with you guys! Though I remember the air quality in parts of the state was somewhere in the Code Maroon(!) range for a while last year because of forest fires or something.

How're things in your neck of the woods whatever these days?

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Hot, very hot.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I hope you're cooler & happier today, UnOne.

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

ugh. i opened the front door to check the mailbox and ran back in. like an oven in the sun. eeee.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes, yesterday was pretty bad. It amazed me when a storm came through and dropped the temperature 10 degrees in just a few minutes... and it was still 90 degrees. That felt so cool by comparison!

[nalidoll.livejournal.com]

We're doing better than usual, today, but we have so many air quality/ozone alert days it isn't even funny.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

We're doing better today--air quality forecast says code yellow (for particlate matter), which may not be great but isn't likely to kill anyone.

[paradigm-palace.livejournal.com]

Cool. I didn't even know that these cams existed. Thanks for posting. I'll be playing around with that site, for certain. Did you know that Smoky Mountain National Park (very close to where I am) is the most visited national park in the U.S.? It's also one of the most polluted as far as air is concerned. It's very sad. A couple of years ago the Park actually CLOSED in the middle of summer because the concentration of ground-level ozone became so unbelievably high in the afternoon. Crazy. And to think that I used to hike in the Smokies for solitude and a sense of "away-ness" from human civilization. I literally cried when I read about how bad the air pollution has become there.

[hummingwolf.livejournal.com]

I remember visiting the Smokies with my parents when I was a kid. It's sad that there's so much air pollution even there.