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What is up with these nighttime AQI readings?

Alien (3819 posts) • 0

Wonder how high they'd go without the baseline support from all the private cars and taxis?

Dazzer (2813 posts) • 0

yawn. and if you walked instead of bike think of all the stteel productiona nd rubber and plastics that would not need to be made. when time comes to visit home country and are you going to cycle back home or catch a big silver bird. change the bleeding record and stop grandsatnding

Alien (3819 posts) • 0

@Dazzer, you're right about the bikes and birds - questions is, where to draw the line. Ideas?

AlexKMG (2387 posts) • 0

Dongfeng meter is off recently. I know since I've been checking aqi daily for over a year. It used to correlate to the other 4, but being 20 or so higher due to that extra city pollution. However, recently it's sometimes double or triple or quadruple the other 4. I don't doubt its real pollution, but I suspect it's not general city pollution ramping that high but maybe construction or a diesel source really close to meter.

Dazzer (2813 posts) • 0

now back up to 119 at 5oclock. reckon it is at ground level and some kid peed on it. or water spray trees knocked it back. either way kunmiung air is still same as shaghai, trend seems set. even witout dogfang loo

Peter99 (1246 posts) • 0

How trustworthy are those measurements anyway? Last year when there was a forest fire on Xishan, and people on this site were complaining about heavy smoke smell and itching eyes bcs of this fire, those meters showed nothing, and it was green symbol.

Maybe theres someone just writing them on a feeling basis, and licking a finger and putting it in the air, sort of. Or maybe they are to be trusted, who knows....

Peter99 (1246 posts) • 0

In a word. Maybe they are just as trusthworthy as all the rest of the data is.

Dazzer (2813 posts) • 0

because most of smoke is bigger than pm2.5 maybe even bigger than pm10 espceially the stuff that sctrathes your eyeballs and the reading is for pm2.5 which is true for a lot of dust as well. if you dont understnad the units you cant understand the figures

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