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Air quality-wise, mild weather conditions this time of year typically means locally-driven pollution. Cooler morning temperatures and light winds are favorable for the buildup of PM10 (dust) and PM2.5 (smoke) from local activity. However, warmer afternoon temperatures will help to mix out PM10 and PM2.5 from the mornings.

EXCEEDANCE REPORT

AQ Exceedance

Updated On: 10/30/2021 - 5:30 AM
This report displays the number of days a monitor exceeded the federal health standard for the given year. Click the monitor to view the dates of each exceedance and the associated concentration.

Previous Day

  2021  


Maricopa County
Monitor
Ozone
PM10
PM2.5
Date
ppb
5/5/2021
72
5/6/2021
76
7/8/2021
71
7/19/2021
71
7/22/2021
75
7/28/2021
71
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
6/11/2021
71
6/29/2021
71
7/30/2021
72
8/3/2021
78
8/4/2021
73
Date
µg/m3
7/12/2021
163
10/11/2021
259
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
5/13/2021
71
6/11/2021
85
6/15/2021
91
7/21/2021
73
7/22/2021
74
7/28/2021
71
8/4/2021
74
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
6/11/2021
74
6/12/2021
73
6/15/2021
91
6/29/2021
80
7/1/2021
82
7/17/2021
75
7/19/2021
73
7/22/2021
71
7/28/2021
81
7/31/2021
71
8/2/2021
79
8/3/2021
84
8/4/2021
78
8/5/2021
74
8/25/2021
73
8/27/2021
75
8/28/2021
71
9/3/2021
75
9/4/2021
78
9/5/2021
71
Date
µg/m3
10/12/2021
170
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
-
Date
µg/m3
10/12/2021
163
Date
µg/m3
1/1/2021
53.5
Date
ppb
6/11/2021
77
6/12/2021
71
6/15/2021
93
6/28/2021
75
7/21/2021
78
7/28/2021
72
7/30/2021
73
8/2/2021
73
8/3/2021
76
8/4/2021
82
8/26/2021
73
8/27/2021
74
Date
µg/m3
7/10/2021
170
10/11/2021
155
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
5/6/2021
75
5/24/2021
76
6/11/2021
78
6/12/2021
80
6/15/2021
89
6/16/2021
76
6/24/2021
72
6/26/2021
73
6/29/2021
72
7/1/2021
78
7/4/2021
72
7/8/2021
77
7/9/2021
71
7/13/2021
71
7/17/2021
77
7/19/2021
78
7/20/2021
71
7/22/2021
82
7/27/2021
73
7/28/2021
87
7/31/2021
80
8/1/2021
73
8/2/2021
73
8/3/2021
76
8/4/2021
77
8/5/2021
77
8/6/2021
73
8/26/2021
76
9/3/2021
74
9/4/2021
77
9/5/2021
72
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
-
Date
µg/m3
10/12/2021
207
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
5/24/2021
74
6/11/2021
82
6/15/2021
98
6/16/2021
74
7/1/2021
73
7/8/2021
73
7/19/2021
73
7/21/2021
72
7/22/2021
78
7/28/2021
76
8/5/2021
73
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
5/24/2021
72
6/11/2021
79
6/12/2021
75
6/15/2021
97
6/28/2021
72
6/29/2021
72
7/1/2021
71
7/19/2021
74
7/21/2021
76
7/28/2021
75
7/30/2021
73
8/2/2021
73
8/3/2021
73
8/4/2021
80
8/26/2021
74
8/27/2021
75
8/29/2021
75
9/4/2021
79
Date
µg/m3
7/10/2021
173
Date
µg/m3
1/1/2021
51.2
Date
ppb
-
Date
µg/m3
3/3/2021
208
10/12/2021
219
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
6/11/2021
74
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
5/6/2021
73
5/24/2021
73
6/11/2021
76
6/12/2021
74
6/15/2021
88
6/16/2021
73
7/1/2021
75
7/8/2021
76
7/17/2021
74
7/19/2021
76
7/22/2021
80
7/27/2021
71
7/28/2021
84
7/31/2021
74
8/2/2021
73
8/3/2021
75
8/4/2021
76
8/5/2021
71
8/26/2021
74
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
5/5/2021
72
5/6/2021
71
5/12/2021
71
5/24/2021
75
6/11/2021
72
6/12/2021
81
6/15/2021
85
6/26/2021
72
6/29/2021
76
7/1/2021
83
7/2/2021
72
7/4/2021
73
7/14/2021
71
7/17/2021
80
7/19/2021
73
7/20/2021
71
7/22/2021
76
7/27/2021
73
7/28/2021
83
7/31/2021
80
8/2/2021
77
8/3/2021
83
8/4/2021
77
8/5/2021
75
8/6/2021
72
8/24/2021
74
8/26/2021
71
8/27/2021
76
8/28/2021
82
9/3/2021
79
9/4/2021
80
9/5/2021
76
Date
µg/m3
7/9/2021
199
10/12/2021
170
Date
µg/m3
1/1/2021
72.3
Date
ppb
5/12/2021
72
5/24/2021
76
5/27/2021
72
5/28/2021
71
6/9/2021
71
6/11/2021
82
6/12/2021
76
6/15/2021
108
6/16/2021
72
6/29/2021
73
7/1/2021
78
7/8/2021
75
7/13/2021
73
7/17/2021
71
7/19/2021
77
7/20/2021
80
7/21/2021
74
7/22/2021
74
7/27/2021
79
7/28/2021
85
7/31/2021
71
8/2/2021
75
8/3/2021
75
8/4/2021
81
8/5/2021
73
8/25/2021
81
8/26/2021
72
8/27/2021
73
8/28/2021
76
9/4/2021
81
9/5/2021
77
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
1/1/2021
61.2
Date
ppb
5/6/2021
73
5/24/2021
73
6/11/2021
77
6/12/2021
74
6/15/2021
90
6/16/2021
72
7/1/2021
77
7/8/2021
77
7/17/2021
73
7/19/2021
76
7/20/2021
73
7/22/2021
78
7/27/2021
72
7/28/2021
83
7/31/2021
72
8/2/2021
72
8/3/2021
73
8/4/2021
75
8/5/2021
74
8/26/2021
73
9/3/2021
71
9/4/2021
74
Date
µg/m3
10/12/2021
174
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
5/12/2021
72
5/24/2021
79
5/28/2021
71
6/11/2021
82
6/12/2021
78
6/15/2021
100
6/16/2021
75
6/28/2021
74
6/29/2021
82
7/1/2021
83
7/8/2021
76
7/13/2021
71
7/17/2021
74
7/19/2021
77
7/20/2021
78
7/21/2021
72
7/22/2021
72
8/2/2021
78
8/3/2021
79
8/4/2021
79
8/5/2021
71
8/25/2021
78
8/26/2021
76
8/27/2021
81
8/28/2021
72
8/29/2021
72
8/30/2021
72
9/3/2021
71
9/4/2021
80
9/5/2021
72
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
1/1/2021
104.6
Date
ppb
5/5/2021
72
5/6/2021
78
5/12/2021
74
5/13/2021
72
5/24/2021
73
5/26/2021
71
5/27/2021
74
5/28/2021
72
6/11/2021
86
6/12/2021
73
6/15/2021
107
6/18/2021
72
7/1/2021
71
7/19/2021
74
7/20/2021
72
7/21/2021
74
7/22/2021
77
7/27/2021
80
7/28/2021
79
8/2/2021
71
8/4/2021
76
8/5/2021
71
8/17/2021
72
9/4/2021
71
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
5/6/2021
75
5/24/2021
74
6/11/2021
78
6/12/2021
74
6/15/2021
92
6/16/2021
76
7/1/2021
75
7/8/2021
78
7/17/2021
73
7/19/2021
77
7/28/2021
83
7/31/2021
72
8/3/2021
72
8/4/2021
75
8/5/2021
76
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
5/6/2021
71
6/11/2021
76
6/12/2021
71
6/15/2021
89
6/16/2021
72
7/1/2021
71
7/8/2021
71
7/20/2021
73
7/22/2021
74
7/28/2021
77
8/5/2021
71
Date
µg/m3
10/12/2021
156
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
6/11/2021
72
6/15/2021
80
6/29/2021
76
7/1/2021
73
8/2/2021
74
8/3/2021
74
9/3/2021
72
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
1/1/2021
74.5
Date
ppb
5/24/2021
71
6/11/2021
75
6/12/2021
73
6/15/2021
96
6/16/2021
74
6/29/2021
74
7/1/2021
80
7/2/2021
71
7/8/2021
79
7/13/2021
71
7/17/2021
75
7/19/2021
78
7/20/2021
78
7/21/2021
72
7/22/2021
80
7/27/2021
75
7/28/2021
85
7/31/2021
75
8/2/2021
79
8/3/2021
80
8/4/2021
81
8/5/2021
82
8/26/2021
76
8/27/2021
75
8/28/2021
80
9/3/2021
76
9/4/2021
80
9/5/2021
77
Date
µg/m3
7/9/2021
188
10/12/2021
180
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
-
Date
µg/m3
7/9/2021
182
8/28/2021
207
10/12/2021
162
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
6/11/2021
73
6/12/2021
77
6/15/2021
83
6/29/2021
78
7/1/2021
86
7/17/2021
78
7/22/2021
74
7/28/2021
79
7/31/2021
75
8/2/2021
73
8/3/2021
79
8/4/2021
76
8/5/2021
73
8/24/2021
73
8/27/2021
74
8/28/2021
78
9/3/2021
80
9/4/2021
79
9/5/2021
74
Date
µg/m3
7/9/2021
208
10/12/2021
158
Date
µg/m3
1/1/2021
47.1
Date
ppb
-
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
µg/m3
1/1/2021
113.4
Date
ppb
-
Date
µg/m3
3/3/2021
177
10/12/2021
166
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
5/24/2021
71
7/1/2021
81
7/17/2021
73
7/28/2021
76
7/31/2021
73
8/2/2021
74
8/3/2021
72
9/3/2021
72
Date
µg/m3
7/9/2021
166
10/11/2021
160
10/12/2021
181
Date
µg/m3
-
Date
ppb
6/15/2021
76
6/29/2021
78
7/1/2021
74
7/8/2021
72
7/19/2021
72
7/20/2021
73
7/28/2021
76
8/2/2021
77
8/3/2021
81
8/4/2021
78
9/4/2021
78
Date
µg/m3
1/1/2021
250
Date
µg/m3
1/1/2021
222.4
1/2/2021
36.4


For now, PM

10 is forecast in the Moderate Air Quality Index (AQI) category each day. This is primarily to account for industrial activity south/southwest of the Phoenix metro area, particularly in the mornings. Elsewhere around the Valley will most likely see PM10 remain in the Good AQI category

 

Dust-wise, PM-10 (dust) levels are expected to be elevated in the morning hours each day, highest in industrial areas south/southwest of the Phoenix metro area. However, warmer afternoon temperatures will help to mix out PM-10 from the mornings.

Air Quality Hourly Forecast | Phoenix

Updated On: 11/2/2021 - 8:24 AM
Click on each day to view forecast.
 
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The Daily Digest
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CDMX

2021 Mexico City
Day of the Dead Parade and Festivities

Day of the Dead Parade Mexico City 2021

 

Even admidst an ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Mexico City will proceed with 2021 Day of the Dead celebrations. Pandemic contingency procedures are being enforced, and guests are reminded to maintain social distances (1.5 meters between parties) and to use antiseptic hand gel when frequent handwashing is not possible. Outdoors and well-ventilated spaces are to be preferred for maximum safety.

October 29 to November 2, 2021:  Activities in Mexico City will center around the Second Annual Festival of Offerings and Floral Arrangements. (See the events calendar entry here.) The festival presents altars of offering (ofrendas) all over the Historic Center. There were 62 registered when the festival was last held in 2019.

The Day of the Dead Parade will take place on October 31. (Events Calendar.)  Likely the single most spectacular event in Mexico City, every year the parade is different. 2021 promises to be no less incredible.

The Parade covers 8.7 Kms and will last about 4.5 hours.

♦ You can find a spot for your family and loved ones anywhere along the Parade Route.

 

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CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: Moral Panic by Adults Goes Viral While THe Kids Laugh and Mock All THe Adults Falling For This Nonsense

Yesterday Nov 01 from Mike Masnick [. . .] But, scratch the surface a little, and beyond a few dumb kids, this seems a lot more like adults over-reacting and freaking out, and making the story go much, much, much more viral than it did in reality.
Indeed, the only news organization I've seen that recognized that most of this was a moral panic by adults was Curbed, which noted that, yes, there was some actual vandalism done by kids, but a lot of it seemed to be kids mocking the trend as well:

Forget 'The Kids These Days'; It's The Adults And Their Moral Panics To Worry About

Culture

from the truly-devious-licks dept

Mon, Nov 1st 2021 9:28am — Mike Masnick
" A  recent episode of the Reply All podcast, Absolutely Devious Lick, touched on a bunch of interesting points regarding the never-ending debates about social media, content moderation, and how it's supposedly damaging the kids these days.
It's worth listening to the entire episode, but it begins by talking about a very slightly viral TikTok "challenge" which became known as Devious Licks -- lick being slang for something you stole.
It started with a kid putting up a TikTok video of him holding a box of disposable masks, suggesting that he had stolen it from the school. Because school kids sometimes do stupid things to copy their stupid friends, a few others posted similar videos, including one early one of a kid taking a soap dispenser. And then there were some stories of it spreading and people going more extreme, because, you know, kids. But it didn't seem to spread that far initially. . .
> But, of course, the thing became a lot more viral after mainstream media jumped on it with their typical "OMG, the kids these days" kind of coverage, starting with the New York Times, CNN, USA Today and then like every random local news jumping on the trend to tsk tsk about the kids these days.

For all the real-life vandalism, what is also very real is that some of these teen punks might be punking us all too. One student, Gavino, a 17-year-old high schooler in Minnesota, uploaded a video showing a classroom sink gushing water, describing it as a “Devious Lick” gone wrong. When I contacted him over Snapchat, however, he told me he wasn’t actually trying to poach the faucet. It was broken, so he made a video about it. When I reached out to another student, a 14-year-old, who posted a TikTok stuffing Chromebooks into his backpack, he told me he didn’t even take them out of the building.

“Seeing people do it, others think they can ‘one-up’ the last person and get something better without getting caught,” Gavino said, adding, “It’s just being funny, trying to get five seconds of fame on a big platform.” Said a 17-year-old girl in L.A., who posted a video “stealing” a microscope from her science lab (she actually owned it, and she filmed the TikTok at home), “I made the video because obviously it was trending. Mostly, it’s for internet clout. And to be funny. It’s not a ‘fitting in’ type of thing. It’s literally just for clout, to show off or … whatever.”

Meanwhile, pretty damn early in all of this, TikTok banned the "Devious Lick" tag and told people searching for it to knock it off:

Also, as far as I can tell, none of the media orgs that covered the whole moral panic freak-out noted that a bunch of kids started to counterprogram whatever vandalism occurred in the opposite direction, posting the opposite of "devious licks": angelic yields, where they would show themselves adding new items to schools (often school bathrooms, since so many of the devious licks stories were about soap and toilet paper being taken from bathrooms).

And that brings us back around to the Reply All episode, which followed a secondary freak-out, after the Devious Licks challenge, in which a document was being passed around claiming to have pre-planned a bunch of other "challenges" for kids in school throughout the rest of the school year. Each month, the posting suggested, kids were planning to do crazy stupid shit (I mean, more crazy and more stupid than any normal teenager) in schools... for TikTok. But, as Reply All's Anna Foley noted, everything about the story just seemed weird -- including (1) teenagers actually planning shit out for an entire school year, and (2) the language on the document didn't sound at all like kids ("slap a teacher on the backside"?!?!?).

Foley started investigating and... basically tracked it down to adults freaking out. She found a School Resource Officer (SRO) who had been early posting the list to Facebook, who didn't seem particularly concerned at all whether or not it was accurate or not -- taking the typical "better safe than sorry" kind of approach. And from there, she traced it back to a school superintendent who claimed she had gotten it from students, though wouldn't say who. But what becomes pretty clear is that almost no kids were passing it around or seriously considering it.

Indeed, there's a hilarious moment in the podcast in which Foley quotes posts from kids laughing and mocking all the adults falling for this nonsense.

It's hard not to look at this like any other moral panic by adults who somehow have forgotten what it's like to be a teenager.

Are there teenagers doing stupid stuff -- including some theft and vandalism? Yes, of course.

Because that's something teenagers do. I mean, I did stupid shit as a teenager too. But, the idea that this is something new, or is caused by social media doesn't really get much support in reality. It does seem like the real "disinformation" came from the adults, not the kids, and the people who bought into it were the adults, not the kids -- and the leading vector of it being sent around was the mainstream media, not social media.

But I don't see Senator Blumenthal calling the head of CNN, the NY Times, and USA Today to come testify about their role in spreading "devious lick" news to gullible adults. Because then he'd have to admit that he, too, is a silly gullible adult."

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