We've been covered by smoke the last little bit and it's just been awful to be outside. I left the window open on Monday night not knowing there were issues and next morning I had a massive sore throat and thought I was caught something at work and was getting sick. Shut my windows and things were okay after I ran the ventilation fan in my house for half hour.
This was the air quality for that day
Anyways, apparently we are going to have another really bad bout of smokey air tomorrow at around 5 similar to that day. Just a heads up for this for the rest of you on CP. http://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/BSC00WC04/current/
Maybe it affected my area differently. I have asthma and lots of allergies and I have not had any problems so far. I have ridden my bike to and from work, kept the same windows open as last week, and nothing really...
I work in the core and live near the Talisman Center
Came to post just this. Leaving somewhat satisfied but disheartened by your screaming lack of an apostrophe...
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Definitely woke up with an extremely sore throat yesterday.
Today doesn't seem to be as bad.
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Do you guys know when it's suppose to clear out? Can't really go outside and do activities with this smoke.
Visibility wise, it is fairly clear out right now. Yesterday I couldn't see much further than a 1km when looking east from downtown, today is atleast 20x better.
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Do you guys know when it's suppose to clear out? Can't really go outside and do activities with this smoke.
First world question.
Weather Canada says AQHI is now at 4, would you recommend turning back the A/C back on? I've had it off for 2 days now. (I know poor me)
I was camping in BC during that full (blue?) moon a few weeks ago, with the smoke where we were that was one of the coolest things I've seen while taking a drunk 5 am piss
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I hated it when we were covered in smoke. It was migraine city for us. All day it would be like you were wearing glasses that turned everything yellow/orange. It looked like nuclear war had just happened.
First world question.
Weather Canada says AQHI is now at 4, would you recommend turning back the A/C back on? I've had it off for 2 days now. (I know poor me)
uhh, I had mine on the whole time... Usually the fan isn't drawing outside air during the AC cycle (mine doesn't) as that would hurt the purposes of AC...like driving on a hot day in traffic with the windows down, you're letting hot air in and then cooling it perpetually if you have an external intake that opens during AC running....
Obviously your Cold air intake next to the furnace may draw a bit more air than it does naturally with the furnace off, but as no combustion is happening in the furnace with the AC on, I just can't see how running the AC the past few days would cause a significant increase in smoke ingress into the house....
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uhh, I had mine on the whole time... Usually the fan isn't drawing outside air during the AC cycle (mine doesn't) as that would hurt the purposes of AC...like driving on a hot day in traffic with the windows down, you're letting hot air in and then cooling it perpetually if you have an external intake that opens during AC running....
Obviously your Cold air intake next to the furnace may draw a bit more air than it does naturally with the furnace off, but as no combustion is happening in the furnace with the AC on, I just can't see how running the AC the past few days would cause a significant increase in smoke ingress into the house....
Sorry, I've never had an a/c for my home so I don't know but doesn't it have to draw air from the outside?
Drawing air from another part of the house would defeat the whole purpose, that area would be super hot.
Sorry, I've never had an a/c for my home so I don't know but doesn't it have to draw air from the outside?
Drawing air from another part of the house would defeat the whole purpose, that area would be super hot.
It's the second law of thermodynamics.
Same as your furnace, AC's are (generally) just heating air thats already in the house. The inside air is pulled and passed beside either a very hot or very cool heat exchange (furnace vs AC). No law violation needed
Some ACs (window units) will draw air from outside though.
Enviro Can & AB Health recommend no AC and no furnace fans since that will increase the amount of outside air drawn in through the fresh air line in the return venting.
Forest fire smoke in Calgary
