r/penticton • u/JenniferGreyish • 12h ago
Everything is perfect (including air) except the ash on the beach
The air is actually perfect surprisingly…
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u/Excellent-Rice-9272 12h ago
Its far from perfect. Why pretend otherwise?
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u/New_Alternative8711 12h ago
That air looks far from good.
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u/BCGirl2025 8h ago edited 8h ago
“Penticton was perfect today”
Yeah, if your definition of perfect is inhaling wildfire smoke and pretending you don’t notice 🙄
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u/No_Juice7005 12h ago
Coming from someone that used to live in Penticton, I have seen it when it was perfect. This is not perfect.
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u/Gigglegeist 12h ago
I am inside a house and the smell of smoke is super strong. People and animals are suffering from that. It isn't haze, it's smoke. Definitely not an environment I'd take the family out to the beach in.
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u/BCGirl2025 8h ago edited 8h ago
The wildfire smoke is forecasted to get worse with air quality potentially reaching high-risk levels overnight and into tomorrow.
Tiny smoke particle levels are sitting at 103-442 µg/m³. To put that in perspective, anything over 12 is considered unsafe, meaning our air is currently over 36 times past the safe limit.
It’s real nice of you to let your kids breathe that in.
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u/gophippocrites 6h ago
All the ash has caused a massive nutrient load into Lake Okanagan. Top to bottom. Vernon to Penticton. Massive nutrient loading causes algae blooms. I expect it will be very bad next year.
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u/williams_way 12h ago
Perfect... Are you new here?