Triad Air Quality

Triad Forecast

Synopsis and Discussion

A subtropical ridge has kept the Triad under a hot and very humid air mass that is expected to persist through the week. Ozone production was a bit delayed today due to morning cloud cover, but has since become mostly sunny this afternoon to allow AQI to rise towards the upper Code GREEN to low Code YELLOW range. Not much is expected to change over the next few days, as conditions are expected to be fairly hot and humid tomorrow through Friday. Onshore flow tomorrow should allow for the air mass to become a bit cleaner, keeping ozone and particle pollution Code GREEN. Low-level winds become more southwesterly for Thursday and Friday as the Triad remains along the northern periphery of the ridge, possibly allowing some elevated pollution concentrations to move into the region. However, elevated dewpoints coupled with an increase in afternoon storm chances should limit any pollution concentrations from accumulating and keep AQI within the Code GREEN range into the weekend. (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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