TCEQ says Ozone Action Days will be in effect Sunday for the Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, El Paso, and Tyler-Longview areas.
TCEQ says Ozone Action Days will be in effect Sunday for the, Dallas-Fort Worth, El Paso, and Tyler-Longview areas. All areas except for Dallas-Fort Worth are expected to go back down to moderate levels of ozone for Monday and Tuesday.
The commission says that light winds, very hot temperatures, abundant afternoon sunshine, and/or elevated incoming background levels could be enough for ozone to be unhealthy for sensitive groups, such as people with lung disease such as asthma, children and teens, older adults, and people who are routinely active outdoors for six or more hours a day.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has issued Ozone Action Days for parts of Texas due to unhealthy amounts of ozone in the area.activities or shortening the amount of active outdoor time. Ozone could reach the upper end of the "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups" range on the south to southwest sides of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, the lower to middle end on the west to northwest sides of the El Paso area, and the lower end on the north side of the Austin area and in parts of the Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland-Odessa, Tyler-Longview, and Waco-Ozone could also reach the upper end of the "Moderate" range or possibly higher in parts of the Houston area; the middle to...
TCEQ says that fine particulate levels may also raise the daily PM2.5 AQI into the lower end of the "Moderate" range for urban locations, particularly the Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Tyler-Longview, and Waco-Killeen areas and to the upper end of the "Good" range in parts of the Bryan-College Station and San Antonio areas.that I have read and agree