Horrible Bad Air Quality (San Diego, Santa Ana: car, deal, area)

[Chimérique]

Horrible Bad Air Quality due to various fires. How to deal with it?

[cruitr]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Horrible Bad Air Quality due to various fires. How to deal with it?

Anyone who provides you advice with this limited input would be purely guessing. You need to spill a few more beans.

[Jenkay]

Originally Posted by Chimérique

Horrible Bad Air Quality due to various fires. How to deal with it?

I'm not noticing and 'horrible bad air quality' here in San Diego, but when it does get smoky you
1) stay inside in the AC/keep doors and windows closed
2) only have your car air on recirculated while you drive
3) do a simple quick google search for more tips from the CDC etc.

[tstieber]

We haven't had bad air quality in San Diego though. There are no nearby fires at the moment (and I hope it stays that way). Counting our blessings.

Come to think of it, we've really dodged some bullets these last few years while LA and NorCal have been getting clobbered. When it has been smoky in the past (like five years ago), we've worn particle filter masks, used air purifiers, run AC to filter the air, and stayed indoors. Haven't had to, though.

[MrJester]

Originally Posted by tstieber

We haven't had bad air quality in San Diego though. There are no nearby fires at the moment (and I hope it stays that way). Counting our blessings.

Come to think of it, we've really dodged some bullets these last few years while LA and NorCal have been getting clobbered. When it has been smoky in the past (like five years ago), we've worn particle filter masks, used air purifiers, run AC to filter the air, and stayed indoors. Haven't had to, though.

Tstieber, would you say that San Diego has less Santa Ana winds than Orange County, even? Seems like over here in Rancho Bernardo, I saw much less Santa Ana winds than I saw in Irvine. Or maybe it's just that this year has been very tame for Santa Ana winds?

[tstieber]

Originally Posted by MrJester

Tstieber, would you say that San Diego has less Santa Ana winds than Orange County, even? Seems like over here in Rancho Bernardo, I saw much less Santa Ana winds than I saw in Irvine. Or maybe it's just that this year has been very tame for Santa Ana winds?

I would definitely say so. Although we can get them, I've noticed that the wind speeds in SD are generally not as extreme in OC or in the mountain passes around LA. I think that's because of the topography being more conducive to them being stronger north of here. (Direction of the mountain ranges, steepness of the terrain, elevation, gaps and passes, etc. -- just much worse there).

Before I moved to Scripps Ranch five years ago, I practically never even experienced Santa Anas in urban/central SD. I remembered getting more "Diablo winds" in the inland Bay Area growing up just west of a mountain range than I ever did here, and I thought the whole phenomenon was overblown. Even during the 2003 Cedar fire, we barely had any wind at all in central SD. But once you go farther east from the 15 and get some elevation, they really start to pick up. We had some gusty winds this morning, but they weren't bad later in the day.

[Jenkay]

Originally Posted by tstieber

I would definitely say so. Although we can get them, I've noticed that the wind speeds in SD are generally not as extreme in OC or in the mountain passes around LA. I think that's because of the topography being more conducive to them being stronger north of here. (Direction of the mountain ranges, steepness of the terrain, elevation, gaps and passes, etc. -- just much worse there).

Before I moved to Scripps Ranch five years ago, I practically never even experienced Santa Anas in urban/central SD. I remembered getting more "Diablo winds" in the inland Bay Area growing up just west of a mountain range than I ever did here, and I thought the whole phenomenon was overblown. Even during the 2003 Cedar fire, we barely had any wind at all in central SD. But once you go farther east from the 15 and get some elevation, they really start to pick up. We had some gusty winds this morning, but they weren't bad later in the day.

That's true of Coastal San Diego, but the winds out east can be pretty gnarly. Sill Hill is often reported as having some of the strongest winds in the entire region during a Santa Ana event.

[tstieber]

Originally Posted by Jenkay

That's true of Coastal San Diego, but the winds out east can be pretty gnarly. Sill Hill is often reported as having some of the strongest winds in the entire region during a Santa Ana event.

Absolutely! West facing slopes are where all the action is.

[loveautumn]

North County (Del Mar past Encinitas) air was all cloudy this afternoon, first looked like fog but then I think it was smoke. Was there a fire somewhere or was this smoke coming down from LA fires?

[sdurbanite]

So far, SD County has been spared any serious wildfires this season. Can't say the same for places to the north of us, though.