BearChemist said:
sycasey said:
BearChemist said:
You don't get to write the homework for Cal88.
For me it's just about getting the right info out there. People shouldn't think that the air quality was dangerous at the beginning of the game, because it wasn't.
If you just base on your perception that's a subjective matter. Before yesterday you proposed AQI would be in the 80's range before KO. Isn't it sneaky that when the actual AQI from the same source was 160 at 8PM you changed your argument to 'I felt fine after the first quarter'?
Cal (or Pac-12) had to make decision based on the AQI with a absurd 200 threshold. It turned out to be 160-170 at 7pm. Some people claimed they were totally fine, while some people were not. As for another poster who kept throwing out snapshot of Houston or Berkeley's AQI map AFTER the game to justify the game shouldn't have been cancelled, while sitting thousands miles away, he is almost in the troll territory to me.
What the hell are you talking about?
1. I have provided my subjective perception, however that is not ALL I have provided. I've also referenced data from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) and the airnow.gov website (which uses the same data, but compiles it into an easy-to-understand, color-coded map).
2. I never promised any specific AQI number by kickoff. Maybe someone else did, but you can go back through all my posts and check. You won't find me predicting a number. What you WILL find is me reminding people that the pattern during the week had been for bad air in the middle of the day that tended to improve after sundown, and that I thought it was likely the pattern would hold on Friday night.
3. I was, in fact, proven right in that assumption. You don't have to rely on my subjective impressions, you can check the numbers from BAAQMD:
http://50.57.200.217/about-air-quality/current-air-quality/air-monitoring-data?DataViewFormat=daily&DataView=aqi&StartDate=10/13/2017&ParameterId=316Or you can check the map:
https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.local_city&cityid=315&mapdate=201710134. I have also said that, in fact, the AQI was very likely NOT 160-170 at 7 PM. I contend that those are erroneous claims based on what an ESPN reporter said and also based on second-hand sites like Weatherbug that seem to have been drawing from old data (from hours before). The basis for my contention can be found in the links I provided above. That's first-hand data from the agency tasked with monitoring air quality. They do not show Berkeley with air quality in that range at the time the game started.
If you'd like to argue otherwise, feel free, but don't mischaracterize my remarks. I am making both a subjective argument AND a factual one.