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Q: What is a trustworthy air quality app?
Who is providing the best, up-to-date air quality app at the moment for androids? Is there any that measure it for many cities across China?
10 years 24 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
I use this one
It has several measurement points in my city, it can easily switch between different cities and it supports both the sensible American scale and the BS Chinese scale. More importantly, it shows actual PM2.5 content alongside the AQI reading. I mostly just use the widget on my home screen to see if I dare take the next breath. It's updated every hour (although with one hour delay, this might also differ from location to location)
Scandinavian:
naturally the app can only be as trustworthy as the readings done by whoever is in chargeof that
smoglife:
OK, might just be being dumb, but how do the PM and AQI differ?
Scandinavian:
AQI is a composite of different readings. PM2.5 is the bad one of them as it gets all the way deep into the lungs. Not that the other stuff in the index is like breathing angel-farts.
There is a good wikipedia article about it.
