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Air Quality Forecasting Information & Resources

Forecasting Information

Air Quality Index: A guide to air quality and your health. Use this brochure to find out about air quality color codes, what they mean, who is most at risk, and how to avoid being exposed to harmful air pollutants.

Air Quality forecast interviews:

  • Interview with former DAQ meteorologist George Bridgers
  • It's Our Air video with DAQ meteorologists Bradley McLamb and Elliot Tardif
  • Former DAQ meteorologist Heather Wylie career video

EPA & AirNow Resources

  • Facts About The Expanded AQI Forecasts
  • Air Quality Guide For Particle Pollution
  • Air Quality Guide For Ozone
  • Particle Pollution And Your Health
  • How Smoke From Fires Can Affect Your Health

Other North Carolina Air Quality Agencies

  • Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection
  • Mecklenburg County Air Quality
  • Asheville-Buncombe Air Quality Agency
  • Land-of-Sky Regional Council

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  • Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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