I was wondering
Why is it so fucking hazy and almost foggy? It smells like an old tobacco barn outside?
Cause something is happening five hundred and fifty miles away!
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/NEWS01/705150358
Midstate haze may be from Southeast fires
Georgia, Florida fires are likely source, forecasters say;
Air expected to get clearer on Wednesday
By TIM GHIANNI
Staff Writer
Winds from the Southeast apparently are pushing the smoky haze up from fire-ravaged north Florida and south Georgia into Middle Tennessee, but it's not a health risk, according to a public health official.
"It is an unusual amount of haze," Sam Herron, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Nashville, said Monday afternoon.
He said that while there is no definitive proof that the haze and the smoky smell in the air in some parts of Middle Tennessee came from the Southeast fires, "the consensus" among Weather Service workers is that that is exactly what's happening.
"We have had a little disturbance that has moved up from the Southeast, so the general flow of air is coming from south Georgia and Florida, going up across Georgia and Alabama and is starting to come into Middle Tennessee," Herron said.
Fred Huggins, a Public Health Department pollution control representative, said particulate monitors, which measure fine particles in the air, back up the theory.
"Starting around 9 or 10 this morning our particulate numbers did start coming up," Huggins said.
He said that with the southerly winds, the fires offer "a pretty good explanation as to where this stuff is coming from. We are all kind of supposing here, but it kind of makes a lot of sense."
Huggins said the levels aren't dangerous for those with heart or respiratory ailments, according to Environmental Protection Agency standards, but that could change.
State forecasts don't "indicate it will get into the unhealthy for sensitive" forecast range, he said.
Cause something is happening five hundred and fifty miles away!
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/NEWS01/705150358
Midstate haze may be from Southeast fires
Georgia, Florida fires are likely source, forecasters say;
Air expected to get clearer on Wednesday
By TIM GHIANNI
Staff Writer
Winds from the Southeast apparently are pushing the smoky haze up from fire-ravaged north Florida and south Georgia into Middle Tennessee, but it's not a health risk, according to a public health official.
"It is an unusual amount of haze," Sam Herron, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Nashville, said Monday afternoon.
He said that while there is no definitive proof that the haze and the smoky smell in the air in some parts of Middle Tennessee came from the Southeast fires, "the consensus" among Weather Service workers is that that is exactly what's happening.
"We have had a little disturbance that has moved up from the Southeast, so the general flow of air is coming from south Georgia and Florida, going up across Georgia and Alabama and is starting to come into Middle Tennessee," Herron said.
Fred Huggins, a Public Health Department pollution control representative, said particulate monitors, which measure fine particles in the air, back up the theory.
"Starting around 9 or 10 this morning our particulate numbers did start coming up," Huggins said.
He said that with the southerly winds, the fires offer "a pretty good explanation as to where this stuff is coming from. We are all kind of supposing here, but it kind of makes a lot of sense."
Huggins said the levels aren't dangerous for those with heart or respiratory ailments, according to Environmental Protection Agency standards, but that could change.
State forecasts don't "indicate it will get into the unhealthy for sensitive" forecast range, he said.