The Northeast Ohio Area Coordinating Agency issued an 'Unhealthy' air quality warning for the five-county region on Monday morning.
A radar report of the region's air quality rating Monday morning, showing moderate levels of ozone pollution in yellow.
Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Portage and Summit counties will all see noticeable shifts in potentially harmful ozone content, NOACA said, which could cause coughing, sore throats and congestion for children, the elderly and people with lung disease. NOACA's late June warning brings to mind the Canadian wildfires one year ago, when harmful smoke made its way southward, covering Cleveland in a thick cloud of gray and brown. On June 27, 2023, Cleveland reported an AQI rating of 291, just 10 points away from a"Hazardous" alarm from the Environmental Protection Agency.
In the agency's latest Air Quality Trends Report, NOACA listed pollution from ozone as"stable," while listing pollutants from fine particle matter, like PM2.5, as"decreasing." A trend, the agency says, that can be extended by cleaner energy production and an overall shift away from vehicles that run on fossil fuels.
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