And then once you're a neighborhood with underground lines, you no longer get any fancy new things that require running new lines (like, say, Sonic fiber internet service).
Can you imagine what the neighbors would say about the noise of backup generators given what they say about the noise of cell towers now: youtube.com/watch?v=daareSEw… ?
I use two sites:
PurpleAir purpleair.com/map?module=AQI…
- closest to realtime (if you choose)
- densest network in many areas
- lower-quality sensors
AQICN aqicn.org/city/california/sa…
- probably? higher-quality (more official) sensors, I *think*
- better worldwide coverage
The plume has shifted north a little bit, with the worst air on the peninsula now focused on north Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Stanford.
Based on satellite images from a few hours ago, it looks like the poor air quality in the Palo Alto / Mountain View / Sunnyvale area is a result of this fire on Grizzly Island (#GrizzlyFire or #GrizzlyIslandFire), not the larger #KincadeFire up in Sonoma County.
AQICN sensors say SF is in pretty good shape right now: aqicn.org/city/california/sa…
(the AQICN sensors don't go close to 0 the way the PurpleAir ones do, so teens or twenties is about as good as it gets)
The inconsistency I'm more concerned about is near Dublin / Livermore.
The inconsistency between PurpleAir's sensor network and the AQICN data today seems... disturbing.
(My understanding was PurpleAir used a network of lower quality sensors, with the tradeoff of much denser coverage (and also realtime rather than time-smoothed data)...
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