Air Quality Index Color Code Reference

0-64

• Cool summer temperatures
• Windy conditions
• Significant cloud cover
• Heavy or steady precipitation

No health effects are expected

• Keep cars and boats tuned up
• Use environmentally safe paints and cleaning products
• Conserve electricity-set A/C to highest comfortable level

65-84

• Temperatures in the upper 70's to lower 80's
• Light to moderate winds
• Partly cloudy to mostly sunny skies
• Chance of rain or afternoon thunderstorms

Unusually sensitive people should consider limiting prolonged outdoor exertion Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups

85-104

• Temperatures in the 80's and 90's
• Light winds
• Mostly sunny skies
• Slight chance of afternoon thunderstorms

Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease, such as asthma, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion

• Limit daytime driving
• Limit vehicle driving
• Refuel vehicles after dusk
• Don't "top off" your gas tank
• Avoid congested areas
• Use water-based paints
• Use transit or car pool
• Use newest/best maintained car
• Combine trips and share rides
• Postpone using gasoline mowers
• Barbecue without starter fluid

105-124

• Hot, hazy, and humid
• Stagnant air
• Sunny skies
• Little chance of precipitation

Active children and adults, and people with respiratory disease such as asthma, should avoid prolonged outdoor exertion; everyone else, especially children, should limit prolonged outdoor exertion.

125 and above

• Hot and very hazy
• Extremely stagnant air
• Sunny skies
• No precipitation

The weather conditions listed above are common weather types associated with the respective air quality level. A combination of part or of all these weather conditions could lead to a certain level of observed air quality.