AQI Forecast
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With dry high pressure building over the Triad, surface winds have become fairly light and variable under mostly sunny skies. Temperatures have also increased today, allowing for enough ozone production to elevate air quality levels into the low Code YELLOW range. Temperatures continue to trend upward as Sunday is expected to be a transition day as low-level moisture begins to return to the region. Winds should start off light in the morning before becoming more southwesterly in the afternoon, likely leading to ozone AQI reaching the low to middle Code YELLOW range. Southwesterly winds continue to increase overnight and allows for dewpoints to rise, making conditions hot and sticky for most of the day on Monday. The increase in wind speed and low-level moisture will likely inhibit ozone production and will likely keep air quality levels in the upper Code GREEN range. Chances of rain increase Monday afternoon through Tuesday morning as a frontal boundary moves through the Triad from the northwest. Skies will eventually clear through the morning, and downsloping northwesterly flow off the Appalachians should induce enough compressional warming to increase surface temperatures to allow ozone levels to rise towards the upper end of the Code GREEN range. (Payne)
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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.
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.