AQI Forecast
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Ambient temperatures have fallen below normal for Friday as an upper-level trough over the eastern United States has ushered in a colder Canadian air mass into the Triad from the northwest, lowering particle pollution levels into the low to middle Code GREEN range. This upper-level pattern is expected to persist through the weekend before moving offshore on Monday. Cold air will continue to be reinforced by the upper-level trough, with gusty northwesterly winds keeping particle pollution in the low to middle Code GREEN range Saturday and Sunday. Once the upper-level trough pushes offshore, high pressure ridging in from the west should allow for weakening winds that will be more favorable for particle pollution accumulations on Monday. However, with particle AQI expected to be so low for the weekend, additional accumulations on Monday will still keep air quality levels in the middle Code GREEN range. (Payne)
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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.
Disclaimer: The Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection posts this information using the first available data from our air quality monitoring network. No quality control review has been performed on this data, and the final results are subject to change after completion of standard quality assurance review and validation procedures.