Triad Air Quality

Triad Forecast

Synopsis and Discussion

Extensive cloud cover early this morning has given way to partly sunny skies this afternoon, allowing enough late day ozone production to elevate air quality AQI into the lower Code YELLOW range. After an unseasonably cool start to tomorrow morning, the Triad will trend towards hotter and more humid through the day and Thursday as the Bermuda high dominates the weather pattern across the southeastern United States. Ozone and particle pollution will likely see an increase tomorrow with skies remaining mostly sunny, with air quality levels rising toward the low to middle Code YELLOW range. Increasing southwesterly winds on Thursday will increase low-level dispersion to lower pollution concentrations across the Triad, dropping ozone and particle pollution levels to the upper Code GREEN range. An area of low pressure with tropical characteristics currently in south Texas will be absorbed into the upper-level trough over the eastern United States and will likely bring an increasing chance of showers for the Carolinas late Thursday and Friday. Precipitation amounts may possibly be on the lower end of expectations, but there will still be enough cloud cover to limit air quality levels from rising out of the middle Code GREEN range. (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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