Triad Air Quality

Triad Forecast

Synopsis and Discussion

A slightly cooler and drier air mass has continued to infiltrate the Triad this afternoon as a ridge of high pressure builds in from the west. Ozone and particle pollution levels have remained in the middle to upper Code GREEN range, likely due to surface winds moving in from the north. After a pleasantly cool Tuesday morning, winds should shift back to southwesterly by the afternoon as the Bermuda ridge begins to take hold over the southeastern United States. Tomorrow and Wednesday will be transition days as conditions trend to hotter and wetter by Thursday. With that said, conditions across the Triad will likely remain dry enough as temperatures increase each day, allowing enough ozone production to elevate air quality levels into the low to middle Code YELLOW range Tuesday through Wednesday afternoon. Particle pollution will likely see a gradual upward trend through the week, becoming the primary pollutant for Code YELLOW AQI by Thursday as cloud cover and rain chances increase due to an unsettled weather pattern that begins to take hold over the region. (Payne)

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Air Monitoring Data

The Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection is making data available from the county's air monitoring network as a public service. These data represent the hourly data set from all of the sites within this network. Data from Triad sites outside of Forsyth County are collected by the North Carolina Division of Air Quality.

Reports

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