Air Quality

AQI Forecast

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Daily AQI Table

Pollutant07/27/2607/28/2607/29/2607/30/2607/31/26
Ozone5444465054
PM2.56162544846

Synopsis and Discussion

Residual low level smoke from the western US and Canada, Tuesday, is leading to code YELLOW particle pollution. Ozone levels are much lower, though, and code GREEN, due to clouds, showers, and thunderstorms. A frontal boundary will swing through the Triad, later Tuesday, ushering cooler and drier air mass. Unfortunately, additional wildfire smoke will filter into the region, behind the boundary, Wednesday. Therefore, code YELLOW particle pollution can be expected to continue. By Thursday and Friday, the wildfire smoke will exit the region, helping particle pollution drop back to upper code GREEN or low code YELLOW. Ozone will remain lower and code GREEN, Wednesday, but warming temperatues and lower humidity will help to increase levels, Thursday and Friday back to upper code GREEN and/or low code YELLOW (GENTRY).

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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.

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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.