From the New York Times, you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

Hey, everyone, it's The Wirecutter Show.

I'm Christine Cyr Clissette.

I'm Kyra Blackwell.

And I'm Rosie Garen, and we work at Wirecutter, the product recommendation site from the New York Times.

Each week, we bring you expert advice from our newsroom of 140 journalists who review everyday products that will make your life better.

This episode of The Wirecutter Show is blowing up, specifically the Weather Channel app.

It's not like I've been getting tons of texts.

Don't worry.

I get these alerts that is like the air quality, the air quality, the air quality, the air quality.

Don't go outside.

It's alarming and I'm not entirely sure what to do with them.

Rosie, the first thing to do is to turn off your notifications.

But the second thing is they just want you to click to engage. No, but honestly, I do get what you're saying. And it's hard to know, you know, if the air is okay to breathe sometimes. If you have kids, especially, it can be concerning. And it's only, I think it's really bad for people on the West Coast right now because a lot of people are in the path of wildfire smoke,

you know, like the last few summers, the wildfire season has been really bad. And it feels like

it's only going to get worse or at least continue like this for the years to come, right? Yeah.

I'm looking for some guidance on how the air outdoors impacts the air inside my home and what, if anything, I can do about it?

Yeah. That's why today I'm really excited because we're going to bring in one of the country's preeminent journalists reporting on air purifiers, a wirecutter writer who knows a ridiculous amount about them and about how to keep your indoor air clean.

That's right. We're talking with Tim Heffernan, our senior writer who's focused on air and water quality.

Tim's going to talk with us about how to determine the quality of your air, what might be making you sneeze inside, and what to do about everyday air pollution.

And he's also going to talk with us about what to do in emergency situations like wildfires.

This is going to be a super informative episode, so you might want to take notes.

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