<story><title>Realtime California Air Quality</title><url>https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/i/mAQI/a10/cC4#7.22/37.494/-120.928</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ilyagr</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve found &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.airnow.gov&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.airnow.gov&lt;/a&gt; very helpful and faster to load than the Purple Air map. They also have a simple but efficient app.&lt;p&gt;Airnow&amp;#x27;s map is slow to load, but shows smoke, air monitors (including the Purple Air ones^[footnote]), and fires all at once: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fire.airnow.gov&amp;#x2F;?lat=37.40&amp;amp;lng=-122.077&amp;amp;zoom=10#&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fire.airnow.gov&amp;#x2F;?lat=37.40&amp;amp;lng=-122.077&amp;amp;zoom=10#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;A less detailed, fast, static map for the SF Bay Area is available at &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.baaqmd.gov&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.baaqmd.gov&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Last, but not least, there is a forecast of surface-level smoke available at &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov&amp;#x2F;smoke&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov&amp;#x2F;smoke&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;. I found it from &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;NWSBayArea&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;NWSBayArea&lt;/a&gt;, which is a good source of news for the Bay Area.&lt;p&gt;[footnote]: To make the numbers match, I had to set PurpleAir to show One-Hour Averages with the LRAPA scoring. See &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;d6yFtow&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;imgur.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;d6yFtow&lt;/a&gt;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Realtime California Air Quality</title><url>https://www.purpleair.com/map?opt=1/i/mAQI/a10/cC4#7.22/37.494/-120.928</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>modeless</author><text>I like PurpleAir&amp;#x27;s air quality map but felt it was a bit too slow to check frequently. So I used their API to make the fastest air quality site around: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aqi.today&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;aqi.today&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>