Use environmentally safe paints and cleaning products
Conserve electricity-set A/C to highest comfortable level
No health effects are expected.
Moderate AQI: 51-100 (Yellow)
Temperatures in the upper 70s to lower 80s
Light to moderate winds
Partly cloudy or mostly sunny skies
Chance of rain or afternoon thunderstorms
Keep cars and boats tuned up
Use environmentally safe paints and cleaning products
Conserve electricity-set A/C to highest comfortable level
Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting prolonged outdoor exertion.
Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups AQI: 101-150 (Orange)
Temperatures in the 80s and 90s
Light winds
Mostly sunny skies
Slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms
Limit daytime driving
Limit vehicle idling
Refuel vehicles after dusk
Don't "top off" your gas tank
Avoid congested periods
Use water-based paints
Use transit or car pool
Bike or walk for short trips
Use newest/best maintained car
Combine trips and share rides
Postpone using gasoline mowers
Barbecue without starter fluid
Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
Unhealthy AQI: 151-200 (Red)
Hot, hazy, and humid
Stagnant air
Sunny skies
Little chance of precipitation
Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease such as asthma, should avoid prolonged outdoor exertion; everyone else, especially children, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.
Very Unhealthy
AQI: 201-300 (Purple)
Hot and very hazy
Extremely stagnant air
Sunny skies
No precipitation
Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease such as asthma, should avoid all outdoor exertion; everyone else, especially children, should avoid prolonged outdoor exertion.
AQI refers to the Air Quality Index. An AQI of 100 is equivalent to the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS). An AQI greater than 100 is considered to be above the national standard or NAAQS.
The weather conditions listed above are common weather types associated with the respective air quality levels. A combination of part or of all these weather conditions could lead to a certain level of observed air quality.
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