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Old 07-30-2021, 11:43 AM
 
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Hi there, were thinking of moving to kemmerer and both my daughter and I are sensitive , we have allergies and I have asthma. I heard about the coal plant, does this affect the air quality? Anyone there with breathing problems? I just talked to someone at one of the clinics and she said there's no problems there and air quality is good. Is this true? Thanks
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Old 07-30-2021, 06:51 PM
 
Location: Cabin Creek
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Hi there, were thinking of moving to kemmerer and both my daughter and I are sensitive , we have allergies and I have asthma. I heard about the coal plant, does this affect the air quality? Anyone there with breathing problems? I just talked to someone at one of the clinics and she said there's no problems there and air quality is good. Is this true? Thanks
Kemmerer is in the middle of a sage brush sea.
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Old 07-30-2021, 08:36 PM
 
Location: Jonesboro
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Default Air quality for sensitives and Asthmatics

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Hi there, were thinking of moving to kemmerer and both my daughter and I are sensitive , we have allergies and I have asthma. I heard about the coal plant, does this affect the air quality? Anyone there with breathing problems? I just talked to someone at one of the clinics and she said there's no problems there and air quality is good. Is this true? Thanks

Where are you located now? It's not apparent from your post. I'm asking because if you are already in Wyoming, you are surely aware of the poor air quality that has been problematic in the state for much of the summer.
The link below explains that but a search for "Wyoming air quality" or however you want to phrase it will reveal that this was also a problem last year in the summer and in some prior summers as well.

The bottom line is that as the West dries out more severely year after year with the deepening drought, whatever the causes may be, the result is that the amount of acreage burned each year & the damage totals escalate each year. Correspondingly the toll taken on air quality is deepening throughout much of the West. But folks, the fire smoke is spreading far beyond just the West.
A friend in Iowa texted me today about her "horrible" air quality found there and my brother in Wisconsin has been writing me about the same thing there.
And down here in Georgia where I live, we are getting hazy skies courtesy of what's burning thousands of miles away from us out West!


Sadly this is probably the new "normal" going forward so welcome to a situation of quality of life deterioration.

If you are sensitive to such issues Goldi88, I'd be very careful as to where you choose to relocate to.
The best of luck to you!

https://oilcity.news/wyoming/wildfir...ildfire-smoke/

Last edited by atler8; 07-30-2021 at 08:37 PM.. Reason: restructured a sentence
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Old 07-31-2021, 08:50 AM
 
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It may be the new normal or it may not. We don't know. The dust bowl of the central plains in the 1930's was the result of an extended time of high temperatures and low rain in the central plains, that lasted for almost a decade. Eventually, it went away, temps cooled in the region and the rains came back. Many temp records across the whole US were set in the 1930's and again in the 1960's and into the 1970's. Those were just 2 periods of higher temps in the US... you can be sure there have been plenty. So any idea that this is a new normal in the west is just guessing.

I can recall in the late 1950's looking a small mountain 1.5 miles from my home in VA, and hardly being able to see it. So hazy days are nothing new, nor is smoke from western fires going far to the east.

The only thing I can add for the OP is that the coal plant is about 8-10 miles SW of Kemmerer, and the smokestacks are about 400-500' high, so the emissions tend to be put up high in the air. The wildlfire smoke IS a real issue out west in July-August and sometimes later in each year.
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Old 07-31-2021, 11:08 AM
 
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Old 07-31-2021, 12:07 PM
 
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Go back 50-60 million years in the geologic record and the CO2 content was around 6 times what it is now and average earth temps were 25 F hotter... but it was hotter still 250-500 million years ago, at times peaking 30F hotter on average. And there has been more time with NO ice caps on the earth than with any ice caps.

At least that is what is being interpreted from the geologic records as of these days. With the continental shifts/drifts, interpreting the temp records at any geographic point has the variable of position relative to the equator to complicate the interpretation. All this interpretation will likely change as time goes by....

https://www.climate.gov/news-feature...rths-ever-been

Just always remember whne trying to figure out all this falderal... It's not about the climate.
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Old 08-01-2021, 08:43 AM
 
Location: Jonesboro
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Go back 50-60 million years in the geologic record and the CO2 content was around 6 times what it is now and average earth temps were 25 F hotter... but it was hotter still 250-500 million years ago, at times peaking 30F hotter on average. And there has been more time with NO ice caps on the earth than with any ice caps.

At least that is what is being interpreted from the geologic records as of these days. With the continental shifts/drifts, interpreting the temp records at any geographic point has the variable of position relative to the equator to complicate the interpretation. All this interpretation will likely change as time goes by....

https://www.climate.gov/news-feature...rths-ever-been

Just always remember whne trying to figure out all this falderal... It's not about the climate.
I appreciate your input. it is helpful.
As a student of history I know full well about the horrible dust bowl period that only served to heighten misery in America during the Great Depression.
Congress went into action to pass legislation to try to impact and lessen the dust disaster only after prevailing winds brought the great clouds of dust east to Washington, D.C. and obscured the skies. At that point, Congress saw first hand what was afoot and jumped into action.

A thing to keep in mind is that if we see warming that is significant (remember, even just a slight temp variation one way or the other in the past Earth history has been enough to set off an ice age or bring about a hot era) the situation as we have known it in the era of man will be altered and also affect flora & fauna.
Any such instability has the potential to bring about mass casualty events for the flora and fauna and thus put our lives at risk. As for example when only a few centuries ago what were called mini-ice ages occurred that affected Europe, they brought about crop failures there the and dislocation of peoples.

As for the op, it's been spelled out for you that Wyoming is again suffering from poor air quality this summer that is the result of western forest fires. Yes, a power plant's emissions can be of concern as you asked about but all told there is more to the concern for air quality that is present now.

Given what brought you to create a thread of inquiry here, my words of advice remain the same as in my previous post which amounts to a "look before you leap" line of consideration.
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Old 08-02-2021, 08:17 AM
 
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Overall the AQI in Kemmerer is well above the US average, for what that is worth. This shows up in several measures of AQI. (Except for one, and I cannot figure out it's basis for measurement of AQI.)
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Old 08-06-2021, 07:16 AM
 
Location: Aishalton, GY
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Go as high as you can stand it. Once spent a winter in South Pass - great clean air
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Old 08-06-2021, 08:38 AM
 
Location: Idaho
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Another consideration OP is the elevation. Kemmerer is at almost 7,000 feet. Will the thin air effect your asthma?
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