Question

Will the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue WA metro area experience exactly 1 day with an Air Quality Index value above 150 in the 3rd quarter of 2024?

Resolved:Yes

58 comments58

Total Forecasters34

Community Prediction

20%

(12% - 29%)

Make a Prediction

50%

community: 20%

Did this actually happen?Yes

Community Baseline Score

0.0

Community Peer Score

0.0

Authors:

Tom_Metaculus

Opened:

Aug 1, 2024

Closes:

Aug 2, 2024

Resolves:

Oct 2, 2024

Spot Scoring Time:

Aug 2, 2024

Include Bots:Yes

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34%

Authors:

Tom_Metaculus

Opened:

Aug 1, 2024

Closes:

Aug 2, 2024

Resolves:

Oct 2, 2024

Spot Scoring Time:

Aug 2, 2024

Include Bots:Yes

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2024 Leaderboard

Map Shows States With Highest Levels of Tiny, Toxic Air Pollution

Newsweek•Jun 16, 2025

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Will the US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index exceed its 2020 peak before 2029?

85%

Will there be a heat wave that kills at least one million people in a single month before 2050?

20%

Will there be two or more COVID-19 hospitalization waves in the United States in at least one of the 2028 and 2029 respiratory disease seasons?

34%