My first thought was 'gotta keep the populace scared' and then remembered smoke from wildfires in Western Colorado and Utah headed this way..I concluded it was due to smoke.
in/near a what? "in/near a noticing" I don't know if I'm in/near a noticing.
yes i am in Wash DC suburbs and they flash this on the freeway. I do not remember this happening before.
I’m in the Denver area and have notice this too.
Democrats are in charge. They are much more gassy.
Air quality alerts depend upon the limits set for particular pollutants - if those limits have been adjusted lately (and they’re always adjusted down to lower acceptable values) either by federal or state regulatory agencies, the number of days exceeding the legal limits will go up. I have no idea whether that’s the case in your area.
Note also - some of the air quality pollutants have no obvious visible indications - everything doesn’t lead to smog.
Probably not applicable much to me as I live in the middle of a bunch of horse farms - VERY rural area of rural Florida, but my AQI is a steady 35-40, PM of 2.5, NO2 of 2, O3 of 38, and SO2 of 2. I guess that's good?
It's still hot and humid and the ragweed pollen is driving me sneeze-crazy...
As with most things weather related, it is best to go with your personal observations. Weather is over-hyped on every level. It as if they are going for ratings, and website hits rather than reporting the facts.
Um, near what?
Definitely!
The Weather Channel App constantly has us under an Air Quality Alert when there’s no Severe Weather Alert.
Definitely started noticing it this year. I just assume it’s part of the shift from the virus emergency hoax to the climate emergency hoax...
“...my phone has been going off a lot more from my weather app...”
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Well; there’s your problem, right there.
Turn alerts “off” and you will be better off.
Yes, just mentioned this to my wife, there were unnecesary ozone warnings in some southeast Wisconsin counties last week. Our DNR needs something to do.
To me “Ozone action day” means “Really nice hot weather.”
My favorite days of summer!
The Clean Air Nazi’s in Yakima County are the worst and they love to wield their “power”.
Just may be conditioning people to accept the climate change agenda big time.
“Are they conditioning us to stay inside ( like COVID )?”
It is not just about covid. The Left is conditioning us to be dependent on government bureaucracies and regulation. They are conditioning us to to distrust our own judgements.
They are jealous of our self-governing Republic and the rights that our Constitution affords us.
They are Marxists whose agenda is to convince us that Liberty is a failure. Capitalism is a failure. The Constitution is a failure.
They will point out problems anywhere they can - even if they have to invent them out of whole cloth.
Back in the 1960s and 1970s the US made great strides toward improving air quality and water quality, and eliminating pollution. We were very successful.
Some nations are way behind us and yes, we have to breath their air to some extent.
But the true agenda of the Left is not to save the planet from pollution - it is to weaken our self-governing Republic by regulating us into submission, and by using fear to get is to trade away our rights.
They stoke fear of climate change
They stoke fear of systemic racism
They stoke fear of “pandemic”
They stoke fear of the rich 1%
They stoke fear of anything - but they don’t really care about us.
It is a giant protection racket - they want us to empower them to “protect us” but once they have the power, protecting us is the last thing they care about.
They will never be satisfied that our air is clean enough, because that’s not what they are really after.
Could be a lowering of the standards.
The National Hurricane Center names a lot of minimal storms that would have never been named 25 years ago in order to increase the tropical storm count.
The ozone / air quality standards may have decreased in order to increase the number of alert days.
There is no increase in the number of “ozone alerts”, they just started sending cell phone notifications as an enhanced propaganda tool.
We live about 50-60 miles north of Gay Frisco, and have had bad air results off and on since the 1st of May.
Our current system is AccuWeather. We had another system with a private homeowner about 200 yards away with a private and expensive system connected to a net. That home owner sold his home and took his expensive system with him, about 2 months ago.
We have no idea where the AccuWeather station is.
This week so far the air is supposedly good and both my wife and I are having severe allergies since going to bed last night. In fact the good air supposedly runs from North of LA along the coast into Oregone.
There are no warnings about allergies just the so called air quality, which has not been bad for the last 45 days or so.
Relatives about 50 miles away, both North and SE have noticed the same stuff. One relative said that AccuWeather has been part of the Gorebull Warming BS forever.