BETA Part 3: Adding PurpleAir AQI (and the Wood Stove Surprise)
I added air quality data to BETA for wildfire smoke season. What I did not expect was to immediately discover a wood stove problem in the Skykomish valley. More on that in a minute. Why AQI for a climbing tool PNW wildfire season has gotten worse every year. Driving an hour to the crag only to spend the day breathing 180 AQI air is a real thing that happens, especially on the east side of the Cascades. I’d personally forgotten to check AQI before a trip more than once, so I wanted it surfaced automatically alongside the weather data. ...