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    🇫🇮 Helsinki is among most polluted cities in the world today.

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    1. thatBOOMBOOMguy on

      Is there really that much street dust generated from gravel meant for snow, or how can this be accurate?

    4. Almanaqqa on

      Air quality rather than pollution. Presumably due to all the melting snow releasing the dust beneath and vehicles disturbing it, and thus distributing it into the air. EDIT: also don’t know the source, but at least later in spring maybe this air quality sounds believable?

    5. asdr0naut on

      Dont know what was it but it was gray like smog. Looked cloudy wather but sunshined. Might be all the shit snow has taken in all winter and insta melted and dry roads

    8. JjyKs on

      Idk I would still much rather inhale the stone dust than whatever the other cities have in their air.

    10. Hermit_Ogg on

      It’s a spring issue, happens every year when snow starts melting. Late March to late April is the worst, until the street cleaning crews get most of the gravel off.

      It’s not only gravel, either – some pollen is already floating to southern Finland. Leppä (whatever that is in English) has started a week ago already. A windy day makes it worse.

      Use a mask for a month, it’ll help.

    11. Tiemuuu on

      I cycled today a bit to school and back, and wondered why the air smelled like shit. Nice to know it wasn’t just my imagination.

    12. Pakkaslaulu on

      No reason to panic, it’s the yearly phenomenon of Sahara sand cloud! This year there’s a record amount of sand so it has affected the air quality everywhere in Europe. This combined with the normal spring dust is why Helsinki is so high eight now. Use face mask to avoid inhaling the dust!

      More info in Finnish, use translation tools! https://yle.fi/a/74-20082774

    16. ElderberryPoet on

      No, it isn’t.

      Temporary air quality reduction due to street dust in spring does not equal pollution.

    17. KahdeksanPianoa on

      Lmao. In Yerevan the air condition is not just poor, it’s deadly. Like, it was 400~380 at autumn-winter time. And here the landfill (nubarashen landfill) that near the city that burns very often. Which makes things even deadlier. Why isn’t Yerevan on the list?

    19. faaip on

      Some sand from Sahara in addition to snow melting quickly and all the street gravel from Winter raising loads of dust.

    20. ahjteam on

      https://www.waqi.info – all big cities in Finland are at ~120 range because snow is melting and all the dust left from the gravel is rising to the air.

      Meanwhile there is +600 air quality in Turkey and India. From really bad air in general.

    21. Markus_H on

      I was wondering about the haze today, whether it was a meteorological phenomenon. Turns out it was just dust.

    22. Veleho1234 on

      This is a yearly occurence in Helsinki. The bad air quality is caused by a mix of dust transport from Sahara as well as dust generated by traffic disturbing the gravel that has settled onto the roads and has now been released due to melting ice and snow.

      The fog some people in this thread were commenting about seeing is most likely caused by water vapour condensing onto airborne dust particles, creating droplets that then form fog.

    26. YourShowerCompanion on

      I wonder if it’s worth to put filters on apartment ventilator grills . Doubt housing cooperative clean ducts and ventilation system from accumulated dust and crap regularly.

    27. ilkp_ on

      Currently it’s the ~same concentration of fine particle pollutants outdoors as you get indoors from heating up an electric sauna.

    29. mongoloidmen556 on

      Yeah, let’s belive in that bs chart

      Helsinki compared to India lmfaoo, have you even traveled outside to sea or western worlds?

      Finland still has most finest air before hitting eastern europe omo lmao

    30. SininenBlueMavi on

      I don’t believe this. This is totally wrong. I’ve been to a lot of cities in the world and Helsinki is not polluted at all.