Even with the extended hot spell, we have been seemingly luckily that there have been few air quality alerts. I don’t know if mitigation efforts are working, or if we have had less in the way of stagnant conditions, but there seem to have been fewer. But there is an air quality alert for Monday [...]

Strong high pressure over Alabama is producing a very stable airmass. Unfortunately, stable can quickly become stagnant, and that will be the case this time as well. The Alabama Partners for Clean Air have issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Friday for Jefferson and Shelby counties. The culprit is ozone. Some actions you [...]

Now we know we are in summer… this is from Alabama Partners for Clear Air… ALABAMA PARTNERS FOR CLEAN AIR PRESS RELEASE AIR QUALITY ALERT! CODE ORANGE for OZONE Forecasted for WEDNESDAY JUNE 24, 2009 JEFFERSON AND SHELBY COUNTIES Actions you can take on Alert Days: · Carpool or take the bus · Combine errands [...]

Scroll down to see JB’s post about kudzu! If you’ve seen the smoke hovering over northern Shelby County, don’t be alarmed. It’s a controlled burn to train firefighters in a “wild land training course” at the park. They are burning about 60 to 120 acres. Inverness SkyCam

The team over at the Alabama Partners for Clean Air has posted a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for today for Jefferson and Shelby Counties. The offending pollutant is particulates. We used to call it smog. I guess we still cause it haze. But it is dangerous to people with sensitive lungs. Some action sthat [...]

The bad air is back! It looks smoky and hazy again. Why? Smoke from wildfires in Georgia and Florida is continuing to be carried our way by an air flow coming from the Atlantic Coast. Last May, central Alabama’s air quality was mostly is the good range, occasionally dropping to the moderate level. However, this [...]

Back in the late 40s, there was a very popular country song with that title. Heard it often on WJRD and WTBC, Tuscaloosa and on the Joe Rumore Show which was on WAPI at the time. Seems like everybody in Alabama is smoking a cigarette this morning. Visibility only one mile at Huntsville Airport. Visibility [...]

Winds have carried smoke from the Georgia/Florida wild fires into the Birmingham area this morning. At-risk groups (children, the elderly, and people with heart and lung diseases) are urged to take precautions for the rest of the day: stay inside and no heavy exercise or work. AIR QUALITY ALERT CODE RED for Particle Pollution Issued [...]

The Alabama Partners for Clean Air issued an Air Quality Alert this morning for Jefferson and Shelby Counties. It is a Code Red Alert for particle pollution. Sam Bell, with that group, said that winds have carried smoke from the Georgia/Florida wildfires into the Birmingham area. At risk groups (children, the elderly and people with [...]

Although air quality in the Birmingham area is forecast to improve tomorrow, it’s easy to see where our hazy, smoky sky came from today: (From NWS Huntsville) VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS TWO MAIN PLUMES OF SMOKE (FU) WHICH HAVE NOW ADVECTED INTO N AL INTO N GA AND SE TN. ANOTHER PLUME FOLLOWS BEHIND ACROSS [...]