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In the afternoon Tuesday, the air quality plummeted. ThePurpleAir website, showed particulate matter levels from the toxic smoke was near the 200 range throughout the Bay Area with the worst air concentrated in San Francisco and Oakland. A 200 level PM reading calls for a health alert, "The...
Monday brings the return of fog to the coast and cooler conditions for many around the bay and in inland areas that had spiked with hot temperatures over the weekend. OAKLAND, Calif. - The Bay Area's air quality is forecast to improve over the next couple of days as a new weather...
“We’re looking at a fairly lengthy duration of dry Santa Ana winds,” said Mike Wofford, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s office in Oxnard. With the dire weather forecast and no sign of relief, Southern California residents are coming to grips with the fact that conditio...
In addition, these forecast models either ignore smoke chemistry entirely (Stein et al. 2009), approximate smoke chemistry with simplified (lumped) mechanisms developed for anthropogenic air pollution (Baker et al. 2016), and/or have difficulty handling the changes in the spatial scale of the ...
Wildfire smoke is an increasing environmental health threat to which children are particularly vulnerable, for both physiologic and behavioral reasons. To address the need for improved public health messaging this review summarizes current knowledge and
At nearby Belmont Park, the New York Racing Association said training went on as planned Wednesday ahead of Saturday's Triple Crown horse race. However, NYRA canceled training Thursday morning at Belmont and Saratoga Race Course upstate "due to poor air quality conditions forecast to impact New ...
Weather experts say this is the worst outbreak of wildfire smoke to blanket the Northeast in over 20 years. Forecasters add air may not fully clear until next week. 7 Unsuspecting Items That May Spark Wildfires With extremely dry conditions across the state, the Michigan DNR is reminding reside...
The top predictors included M2GMI carbon monoxide mixing ratio in the bottom layer, temporal basis functions, spatial location, air temperature, MAIAC AOD, and PM2.5 sea salt mass concentration. In an independent test using three long-term AQS sites and one short-term non-AQS site, our model...
Parts of the East Coast will continue to suffer poor air quality until at least the weekend. Winds are forecast to push thick smoke farther south into the Mid-Atlantic, meaning the same smoke seen in New York City this week could smother Delaware, Maryland, northern Virginia and Washington, ...