The state environmental department has issued an air-quality alert today for much of Southeastern Massachusetts, including Martha’s Vineyard.
A release from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection says there’s an expected increase in ozone levels on Thursday, April 13.
The air quality alert is in effect from 11 am until 11 pm for Barnstable, Dukes, Nantucket, Bristol, Plymouth and Norfolk counties.
The release states that air in these areas is expected to be unhealthy for sensitive groups, including people with heart or lung diseases.
MassDEP is advising people in sensitive groups to reduce prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion, take more breaks, and do less intense activities. Watch for symptoms such as coughing or shortness of breath.
MassDEP has also declared an advisory for open burning today across the state. They’ve notified local fire departments that open burning permits are not to be issued today because of the expected elevated levels of air pollution. Any open burning today would cause and contribute to a condition of air pollution and likely result in further elevating ozone concentrations, the statement reads.
so where is this bad air coming from ? What is the cause?
why one day good air, the next bad ?
Perhaps Herschel Walker was right when he said
“Since we don’t control the air, our good air decided to float over to China’s bad air, so when China gets our good air, their bad air got to move,” Walker said. “So it moves over to our good air space. Then, now, we got we to clean that back up.”Jul 12, 2022
Encourage huge collection of butterflies to position strategically and blow the air easterly…
Tounge in cheek
dana , dana dana —
Bad air comes from those ugly windmills.
Albert– did you get that theory from someone at Fox “News” ?
It sounds like something that is about the level of reality over there.
But here, let me simplify it for you with a relatively easy formula.
Windmills = Bad air. or even more betterer,
Windmills=woke
There–Only 2 or 3 words and one mathematical symbol that most people know to explain it instead of the 7 you used. We need to keep it simple.
Bad air comes from let wind.
Walker let a lot of wind.
Ground level zone is created from NOx, VOCs, and sunlight. On the Vineyard, that would be from car exhaust. However, the island is not highly populated during this time, so most likely this is coming from the cape or industrialized areas in eastern MA or RI. Ground level ozone can be a problem for everyone as it can irritate healthy lungs. When ozone is high, it is best for everyone to reduce strenuous activity until air quality is improved.
Sadly the prevailing winds are SW ,the Island is down wind from,
New York,New Jersey,Conn,RI,Pennsylvania that is why the sunsets
are so orange SMOG from the cites .
I lived on the Vineyard for 40 years.
This was much more common before the Bryant Point coal fired plant in Somerset shut down in June of 2017.
It was the largest coal fired plant in New England and the last one in Mass.
Imagine that. We never even had a single blackout because of that.
The other day, someone was critical of my pedal assist e-bike, claiming that it was powered by fossil fuels. He claimed 80 % of the power in New England comes from fossil fuel. At least he wasn’t claiming it was “powered by coal”.
It’s a little frustrating sometimes to have to continually confront continued willful ignorance. At any rate, with some input from my 70 year old body, I can travel 4 miles for a penny’s worth of electricity.