AQI Forecast
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Widespread showers and cloudy skies have dropped air quality levels into the middle Code GREEN range this afternoon as a cold front transits the Carolinas. As the front clears off to the east this evening, a drier and cooler air mass moves into the Triad and remains in places over the next couple of days. Temperatures will fall to slightly below normal through the period, with air quality levels easily remaining Code GREE for Monday and Tuesday. Mid-level moisture begins to move in from the west ahead of an approaching upper-level trough, overriding the dry high-pressure ridge at the surface to lock in cold air damming over the Triad on Wednesday to keep air quality levels Code GREEN. (Payne) *** Due to increased wildfire risk and severe drought across most of the state, the N.C. Forest Service has issued a statewide ban on all open burning and has canceled all burning permits statewide. ***
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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.