The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has extended Spare the Air alerts through Sunday because of wildfire smoke that has lessened in recent days but still is causing elevated pollution levels around the region.
The air district has issued a long string of the alerts, which ban the burning of wood and other solid fuel both indoors and outdoors, after lightning strikes sparked wildfires around the Bay Area two weekends ago.
Although the amount of smoke around the region has lessened thanks to on-shore breezes and crews making progress on containing the blazes, air quality is still expected to be unhealthy through the weekend, particularly near the fires in the North Bay and South Bay, according to the air district.
So running my smoker tomorrow will not make any difference to the air quality. Have a couple of nice sides of baby backs and a big bag of cherry wood chunks for a long slow burn. Just need more beer.
AHHhhhhhh, you must be my long lost twin…
I hot Smoked a tri-tip for dinner tonight. Got about 12 lbs of ribs marinating overnight, for a slow smoke tomorrow…
Yum Yum
just a follow-up: the ribs enjoyed a 4hr smoke…… They were delicious!
The EPA could have told us this, we don’t need BAAQMD. Please close this ‘agency’ and save the area some money.
They only cost $241 million per year (according to their budget) to tell us the obvious and quash having a fire on winter holidays. No wonder the state has money problems.