Thursday, June 05, 2025

We're number one (almost)

Grand Rapids has the worst air quality in the country today, and some of the worst air quality in the world. If it was a major city, it would be #2 in the entire world behind Dakar, Senegal (an eye-watering AQI of 190, due to dust from the Sahara desert).

Here? AQI of 161 and rising, apparently. We were going to go for a long walk and decided to move swimming up a day instead. Being underwater is the most pleasant place to be right now.

It doesn't seem there's a single place in the U.S. you can live anymore that's free of the threat of weather disaster. 

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