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Originally Posted by justjim
We were in Fairbanks in the middle of June and nobody was burning wood in their stoves as it was unusually warm for that time of year. During the winter in Fairbanks, there probably is a big difference regarding pollution. Perhaps we were breathing pollution particles we couldn’t see but I have a sense that the pollution level is much more in the winter than in the summer when residents are not burning wood to stay warm. When we lived in Tennessee, a number of residents burned wood during the winter and there was likely a high level of pollution there too.
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I would bet that the poor ranking of Fairbanks air quality...is based solely on wintertime conditions.
Having also been there in the summer a number of times, the air quality is quite nice...if you don't count mosquitoes the size of Cessna's!
I mean really, how in the heck can a mosquito survive winters that cold...then grow so damned big and hungry?!
