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Air Quality Alert in Effect for Saturday
Published: July 17, 2026 at
06:00 p.m.
By: Alert from
National Weather Service
Air Quality Alert
NYZ008-190400-
Lewis-
Including the
city of Lowville
243 PM EDT Fri
Jul 17 2026
...AIR QUALITY
ALERT IN EFFECT FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT TO MIDNIGHT EDT
SATURDAY NIGHT...
The New York
State Department of Environmental Conservation at
Albany has issued
an Air Quality Health Advisory for Fine
Particulates from
midnight tonight to midnight EDT Saturday night.
Air quality
levels in outdoor air are predicted to be greater than
an Air Quality
Index value of 150 for Fine Particulates. The Air
Quality
Index...or AQI...was created as an easy way to correlate
levels of
different pollutants to one scale. The higher the AQI
value...the
greater the health concern.
When pollution
levels are elevated...the New York State Department
of
Health recommends that individuals consider limiting strenuous
outdoor physical
activity to reduce the risk of adverse health
effects. People
who may be especially sensitive to the effects of
elevated levels
of pollutants include the very young and those with
pre-existing
respiratory problems such as asthma or heart disease.
Those with
symptoms should consider consulting their personal
physician.
For additional
information, please visit the New York State
Department of
Environmental Conservation website at,
https://on.ny.gov/nyaqi , or call the
Air Quality Hotline at
1 800 5 3 5, 1 3
4 5.
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