[JonathanLB]

Originally Posted by quixotic59

It's unlikely. One of the major causes of the conditions favorable to the fires is the Santa Ana winds. They flow from inland out towards the ocean. There was minimal blowback even in CA. That's for the Wollsey fire. As someone above mentioned the Camp fire was way north.

You guys got lucky there. I keep Vegas weather and my horrible home city of Portland weather on my phone and we got “unhealthy for everyone” air quality multiple days and many readings above 120 when Vegas was clear and no air issues. Grrr.

In a few hours I’m meeting with my finance dude and figuring out my move. Last winter outside of Vegas!

[Commander666]

Las Vegas has more unhealthy air days than Los Angeles

[Tek_Freek]

Originally Posted by Commander666

Las Vegas has more unhealthy air days than Los Angeles

Perhaps for the valley, but up here? Meh.

And you are 100% wrong.

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[tijlover]

Originally Posted by Commander666

Las Vegas has more unhealthy air days than Los Angeles

L.A. has reduced its Red Alert days from 200 in 2000 to 100 today, quite the success story!

Las Vegas gets roughly 15+ Red Alert days a year. No comparison!

[Commander666]

https://www-reviewjournal-com.cdn.am...luted-metro%2F

[Commander666]

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...ng-worst-in-us

[Tek_Freek]

Linking to articles regarding the same report doesn't double the strength of an argument. And if you read the entire article you will note that the group that released that report are being accused of bias.

But Mike Sword, manager of the Clark County Department of Air Quality Planning Division, challenged the findings. While the report counts all days that registered higher than 50 on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index as poor, the EPA considers index values of 51 to 100 to be moderate pollution levels that don’t pose a significant health risk, he said.


“This report screams of bias,” said Sword, a chemical engineer. “Based on that, I think that it needs some rigorous science principles and math principles applied to it.”


Using the EPA’s standard, the county measured 19 days in 2016 at or above an air quality index value of 101 — the point at which the federal agency says pollution levels are unhealthy for those with heart and lung conditions as well as older adults and children. It wasn’t clear whether that would still place the valley among the metros with the dirtiest air.

Though Sword said Clark County’s ground-level ozone measurements exceed the limit, that doesn’t signal the area’s pollution is worsening, but rather that regulations are becoming more stringent.
“We like to refer to it as lowering the limbo bar,” Sword said. “Our air quality over the years has been stable and gradually improving.”

But the report’s results didn’t surprise Antony Chen, director of UNLV’s Urban Air Quality Laboratory


He said the extremely high temperatures and abundance of sunlight during Southern Nevada summers create the perfect conditions for the creation of ozone, a gas that is a key component of smog. The gas reacts photochemically with “precursors” like vehicle and tailpipe emissions to create the potentially unhealthy haze in the air.

[NLVgal]

The air here is fine. It’s just fkn hot air.

[Tek_Freek]

We talkin' 'bout the air at the airport or on CD?

[EA]

I like vegas and all, but I'd move here in a heartbeat if I could swing it.


https://www.redfin.com/CA/Westlake-V...lwbotg24MlA1-E