How does air become stagnant?
From
Weather.com Air Stagnation Advisory
/O.NEW.KBUF.AS.Y.0003.060703T1528Z- 060704T0500Z/NIAGARA-ORLEANS-NORTHERN ERIE-GENESEE-WYOMING-CHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY-SOUTHERN ERIE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NIAGARAFALLS...MEDINA...BUFFALO... BATAVIA... WARSAW...JAMESTOWN...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE... ORCHARD PARK... SPRINGVILLE 1128 AM EDT MON JUL 3 2006
...AIR STAGNATION ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT TUESDAY...
THENEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION HAS ISSUED ANAIR STAGNATION ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 AM EDT TUESDAY FORTHE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
ALLEGANY...CATTARAUGUS...CHAUTAUQUA... WYOMING...ERIE...GENESEE... ORLEANS... NIAGARA.
AIRQUALITY LEVELS IN OUTDOOR AIR ARE PREDICTED TO BE GREATER THAN AN AIRQUALITY INDEX VALUE OF 100 FOR THE POLLUTANT OF OZONE. THE AIR QUALITYINDEX...OR AQI...WAS CREATED AS AN EASY WAY TO CORRELATE LEVELS OFDIFFERENT POLLUTANTS TO ONE SCALE. THE HIGHER THE AQI VALUE, THEGREATER THE HEALTH CONCERN.
WHEN POLLUTION LEVELS ARE ELEVATED...THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH RECOMMENDS THAT INDIVIDUALSCONSIDER LIMITING STRENUOUS OUTDOOR PHYSICAL ACTIVITY TO REDUCE THERISK OF ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS. PEOPLE WHO MAY BE ESPECIALLY SENSITIVETO THE EFFECTS OF ELEVATED LEVELS OF POLLUTANTS INCLUDE THE VERY YOUNG,AND THOSE WITH PRE-EXISTING RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS SUCH AS ASTHMA ORHEART DISEASE. THOSE WITH SYMPTOMS SHOULD CONSIDER CONSULTING THEIRPERSONAL PHYSICIAN.
A TOLL FREE AIR QUALITY HOTLINE HAS BEENESTABLISHED SO NEW YORK RESIDENTS CAN STAY INFORMED ON THE AIR QUALITYSITUATION. THE TOLL FREE NUMBER IS: 1 800 5 3 5, 1 3 4 5.
AN AIRSTAGNATION ADVISORY INDICATES THAT DUE TO LIMITED MOVEMENT OF ANAIRMASS ACROSS THE ADVISORY AREA... POLLUTION WILL INCREASE TODANGEROUS LEVELS. PERSONS WITH RESPIRATORY ILLNESS SHOULD FOLLOW THEIRPHYSICIANS ADVICE FOR DEALING WITH HIGH LEVELS OF AIR POLLUTION.
In these troubling times... do we really need to have the air we breathe be under question?
With the various forms of bird flu in constant discovery ‘n mutation... the nightmares bombarded on us through our media outlets... 'n the ever looming/very real threat of annihilation… can we really be expected to just die while sitting in our most comfortable chair… clutching a remote control in our hand… dead eyes staring at a television set showing a looping recording of the Emergency Broadcast System… telling the zombified-festering onlookers that it’s just a test?
The answer is "No"... we were looking for "No".