Comments on: Radiation Fog

By: Kate St. John

Kate St. John — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 15:20:38 +0000

During last Thursday’s inversion (Oct 25) firefighters in the East End of Pittsburgh received 20 calls between 2:00am and 10:30am when carbon monoxide detectors went off, reporting too much CO in the air.

‘Chief Large said firefighters attributed the gas to the inversion in so many cases, because fire department equipment oddly registered a greater presence of carbon monoxide outside, as opposed to inside, “backward from what we would normally expect.”‘

Yes, the air is bad when in-home detection systems notice it.

By: Kitty

Kitty — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 11:51:02 +0000

Ditto!! Great Blog post. Teach!!

By: Kate St. John

Kate St. John — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 10:07:40 +0000

Speaking of bad air… Today, Thursday Oct 25, there’s an air quality alert for the Liberty-Clairton area due to fine particulate. This has a two-fold cause: weather and industry. We’re having unseasonably warm weather, up to 16 degrees above normal.
And Clairton is the home of the nation’s largest coke plant; coke-making produces lots of fine particulate.

By: Rob Protz

Rob Protz — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:07:56 +0000

Great blog post today, Kate

I just hope all the Republicans in Congress read it too! They could use a little education.