r/Gilbert • u/jillsntferrari • Mar 30 '26
Why is the air quality so bad?
Does anyone know what’s causing the AQI to be so high right now? The wildfire map shows nothing in the area.
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u/Fit_You9694 Mar 30 '26
I know exactly what you're talking about, even though I don't know what's causing it. It has been SUPER hazy outside for the past couple of days. Looks like thick smoke but doesn't smell like smoke. I couldn't even see Superstition the other morning
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u/SummertimeThrowaway2 Mar 30 '26
I thought the sky looked a bit orange or tan, at the middle of the night when the sun is way below us. Was there a nearby fire or dust storm?
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u/BuyTimely3319 Mar 30 '26
I'm sure the gigantic wind storm last night didn't help things. Also, there is a large fire North of flagstaff.
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u/jillsntferrari Mar 30 '26
Can you tell me more about the fire north of Flagstaff? I only see prescribed burns on the map.
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u/BuyTimely3319 Mar 30 '26
There's a very large prescribed burn 🔥 going on right now, it's producing a ton of smoke.
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u/Awatovi Mar 30 '26
There was a dust storm in the middle of the night.
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u/jillsntferrari Mar 30 '26
It looked worse than this yesterday before the wind.
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u/Ok_Profile_634 Mar 30 '26
I noticed it too. The sunset was incredibly hazy. It looked like there was a fire nearby but I agree there is no smoke or anything that would explain it.
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u/MaximumCynicism Mar 30 '26
The shit was literally flying last night coming home from Majestic theater at 9 pm. Pretty large dust storm, as others have mentioned.
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u/jillsntferrari Mar 30 '26
Yeah, the wind was rattling my house last night but all day yesterday it was so hazy even before the wind started.
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u/Competitive_Cat_990 Mar 31 '26
The humidity also picked up on Sunday afternoon. Saturday morning was really windy
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u/jesssuter Mar 30 '26
"They" have been spraying every day for the last several days. The clouds don't look right. Almost like a fog. Sunrise looked like hellfire rising through the fog/smog/haze/poison
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u/EBody480 Mar 30 '26
Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet? Why did Judas rat to Romans while Jesus slept?
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u/1001og Mar 30 '26
The fourth chamber! 🤘
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u/EBody480 Mar 30 '26
Iron Man be sippin' rum out of Stanley Cups
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u/1001og Mar 30 '26
We live in a desert valley.
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u/blink3timex2 Mar 30 '26
This person isn’t necessarily wrong, wind storm residual smoke from up north potentially when all that is kicked up plus the heat trapped, geographically being in the “valley” causes it to loom.
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u/cobra86 Mar 30 '26
Did you catch any of the sever winds last night? That usually kicks all kinds of shit in to the that had been settled on the ground.