Weather Alerts
Air Quality Alert issued July 13 at 11:26AM EDT by NWS Marquette MI
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy
(EGLE) has issued an Air Quality Alert for Sunday July 13 and Monday
July 14, for elevated levels of fine particulates (PM2.5).
Pollutants are expected to be in the Unhealthy (Red AQI) to USG
(Orange AQI) range.
The alert is in effect for the following Michigan Counties,
Keweenaw, Menominee, Dickinson, Iron, Marquette, Baraga, Northern
Houghton, Southern Schoolcraft, Ontonagon, Delta, Gogebic, Luce,
Alger, Northern Schoolcraft, and Southern Houghton.
It is recommended that, when possible, you avoid strenuous outdoor
activities, especially those with heart disease and respiratory
diseases such as asthma.
Monitor for symptoms such as wheezing, coughing, chest tightness,
dizziness, or burning in nose, throat, and eyes. Reduce or eliminate
activities that contribute to air pollution, such as outdoor
burning, and use of residential wood burning devices.
Keep windows closed overnight to prevent smoke from getting indoors
and, if possible, run central air conditioning with MERV-13 or
higher rated filters.
For up-to-date air quality data for Michigan visit the MiAir site:
https://air-egle.hub.arcgis.com/
For further information, please see EPA's Air Now site for up-to-
date air quality data at https://www.airnow.gov
For further health information, please see MDHHS' Wildfire Smoke and
Your Health site at https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/safety-injury-
prev/environmental-health/your-health-and-wildfire-smoke.
Air Quality Alert issued July 12 at 10:14AM EDT by NWS Marquette MI
The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy
(EGLE) has issued an Air Quality Alert from midnight EDT Sunday July
13 through noon EDT Monday July 14, for elevated levels of fine
particulates (PM2.5). Pollutants are expected to be in the Very
Unhealthy (Purple) to Unhealthy (Red) AQI range.
The alert is in effect for the following Michigan Counties,
Alger, Luce, Menominee, Delta, and Schoolcraft.
It is recommended that, when possible, you avoid strenuous outdoor
activities, especially those with heart disease and respiratory
diseases such as asthma.
Monitor for symptoms such as wheezing, coughing, chest tightness,
dizziness, or burning in nose, throat, and eyes. Reduce or eliminate
activities that contribute to air pollution, such as outdoor
burning, and use of residential wood burning devices.
Keep windows closed overnight to prevent smoke from getting indoors
and, if possible, run central air conditioning with MERV-13 or
higher rated filters.
For up-to-date air quality data for Michigan visit the MiAir site:
https://air-egle.hub.arcgis.com/
For further information, please see EPA's Air Now site for up-to-
date air quality data at https://www.airnow.gov
For further health information, please see MDHHS' Wildfire Smoke and
Your Health site at https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/safety-injury-
prev/environmental-health/your-health-and-wildfire-smoke.