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Improving Air Quality Comes with a Forecasting Twist

Elliot Tardiff (NC DAQ)

A photo of a smoky haze over Winston-Salem on June 6

Jun 13, 2023

Rapid Reaction: Smoky Skies Create Unhealthy Air Quality

Our summer started not with sun but smoke last week, which yielded the most widespread hazardous air quality episode seen in many years across the eastern United States. Together with our partners at the North Carolina Division of Air Quality (NC DAQ), who are responsible for operating a network of air quality monitoring sites and issuing air…
A screenshot of the Air Quality Portal dashboard containing air quality and weather forecasts

Mar 24, 2022

Air Quality Updates: What to Watch for in 2022

That feeling of spring in the air will soon be joined by powdery puffs of pollen, some sniffs of smoke, and potentially even occasional unhealthy air pollution as the weather continues to warm up. March marks not only the start of meteorological spring, but also the beginning of ozone season, which runs from March 1…

Oct 30, 2018

Clearing the Air: A Discussion with Air Quality Forecasters

Today, our look at the state of air quality in North Carolina concludes with the third guest post by the meteorologists from the NC Division of Air Quality. Our final post in this year’s air quality series features a roundtable discussion about how we forecast air quality, the challenges we faced during the 2018 ozone…

Oct 25, 2018

Beyond a Number: Making and Verifying an Air Quality Forecast

Today, our look at the state of air quality in North Carolina continues with the second guest post by the meteorologists from the NC Division of Air Quality. Previously, we discussed the significant improvements in North Carolina’s air quality over the past ten years and how this has actually made air quality forecasting more challenging.…

Oct 23, 2018

Improving Air Quality Comes with a Forecasting Twist

It’s been more than four years since we checked in with our partners at the NC Division of Air Quality about the state of air quality in North Carolina. Over the next two weeks, the NC DAQ team of air quality forecasters will offer some updates in a series of guest blog posts. North Carolina’s…