Air Quality Alert in Effect for Hudson County Until 10 PM Tonight
By Jon Whiten • Aug 19th, 2010 • Category: Blog, News
Although temperatures are only expected to climb to the high 80s today, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) says the calm winds, sunny skies, and stagnating conditions will lead ozone levels to reach high levels throughout the state and it has issued another Air Quality Action Day, with an Air Quality Alert in effect until 10 pm in Hudson County and four other New Jersey counties.
The Air Quality Index has been raised to the “Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups” category, which calls for children, the elderly, and people with respiratory diseases like asthma to avoid most outdoor activities during the daytime; and for healthy individuals to reduce strenuous outdoor activities, like jogging or exercising outdoors.
As of now, the DEP says the air will clear up a bit tomorrow, with ozone levels returning to the moderate category.
Hudson County had 29 of these days last year, which helped it earn an “F” from the American Lung Association’s annual “State of the Air” report.
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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