air quality health advisory<\/a> Saturday, with pollution levels expected to reach a range considered unhealthy for sensitive groups.<\/p>\nHow bad will NYC air quality get?<\/p>\n
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued the advisory through 11 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Air Quality Index is forecast to reach Level Orange, which covers AQI readings between 101 and 150 and is classified as unhealthy for sensitive groups.<\/p>\n
New York issues air quality health advisories when pollution is expected to exceed an AQI of 100.<\/p>\n
Healthy people generally face a low risk of air-quality-related health effects from outdoor activities at those levels, according to the alert.<\/p>\n
Who should take precautions?<\/p>\n
People considered more sensitive to air pollution include:<\/p>\n
People with heart or lung disease<\/p>\n
People with respiratory conditions such as asthma<\/p>\n
Sensitive groups are advised to reduce strenuous outdoor activity, take additional breaks outside and watch for symptoms such as coughing or shortness of breath.<\/p>\n
People with asthma or chronic lung conditions should keep quick-relief medication available and follow their existing treatment plans.<\/p>\n
NYC Emergency Management similarly advises people who are particularly sensitive to air pollution to reduce prolonged or heavy outdoor exertion during an air quality health advisory.<\/p>\n
Heat advisory also in effect<\/p>\n
The air quality concerns come while New York City is also under a heat advisory through 8 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n
The National Weather Service warned that heat index values could reach as high as 104 degrees, according to Notify NYC.<\/p>\n
What is the Air Quality Index?<\/p>\n
The AQI is used to communicate how clean or polluted the air is and what health effects may be associated with current or forecast conditions.<\/p>\n
New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation monitors outdoor pollution and publishes daily AQI forecasts for regions across the state, including the New York City metropolitan area.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
This article was written using information from Notify NYC and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief An air quality health advisory is in effect for New York City until 11 p.m. Saturday.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4590,92157,67250,9,56,63,65,64,113343],"class_list":["post-316951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-air-quality","tag-air-quality-index","tag-health-advisory","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sensitive-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}