I live in Dallas TX, we have them all summer, today is a level orange.
2007-07-27 06:22:23 · 8 answers · asked by Hippiechick 3 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
ozone days/alerts are mandated by the EPA as a means of alerting the public that lives in areas where air pollutants build up. This is mostly caused by lack of wind to disperse the pollutants. Areas with wind rarely have these alerts. Watch weather frontal action and wind and compare that to your alerts. The wind however does not stop the cause of the pollutants on the accumulation of them thus the alert days.
2007-07-29 13:00:05 · answer #1 · answered by K M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in case you have allergies, i could honestly no longer use ozone as a disinfectant. the point of ozone interior the air mandatory to be an valuable disinfectant is greater than levels counseled via the Environmental risk-free practices organization. in certainty there is not any actual threshold dose at which ozone is risk-free. some each person is extra delicate to the effects of ozone, quite asthmatics and youthful babies (babies breath quicker and are extra energetic, so as that they soak up extra oxygen/ozone and their lungs are nonetheless springing up). extra, long term exposure to ozone could reason everlasting injury on your lungs. examine have additionally shown that ozone could additionally keep away from youngster's lungs from springing up precise. i could additionally warning you approximately any disinfectant - some considerable different and infants chemical ingredients like bleach could additionally injury youthful youngster's lungs. in case you think of roughly it, if some thing is powerful adequate to ruin viruses, it may desire to be harsh to you besides. i think of that having a HEPA filter out and a Dehumidfier is super thank you to decrease mildew. between the terrific the style to keep away from getting unwell is via washing hands and nutrition. yet another concept on a disinfectant is to apply ultraviolet mild (yet don't be interior the room whilst utilising that the two, simply by fact it may injury your dermis and eyes - like the solar) to earnings extra approximately ozone, inspect my weblog, be satisfied to circulate away any extra questions approximately there. terrific of success.
2016-10-12 22:28:03 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. In Austin they are called ozone action days. But we have not had a single one this year, because it has been cloudy, cool and rainy almost continuously for several months now.
2007-07-27 10:10:13 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I live in the country in Tennessee and we don't have any problems. The county only has 17,000 people and it's farm land and forest. I really do feel sorry for people who live in the cities
2007-07-28 06:10:51 · answer #4 · answered by John 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here in Michigan we have them pretty often in the summer time. I like them, they encourage laid back days without lawn mowing or alot of extra driving. Good days for lemonade.
2007-07-27 07:04:54 · answer #5 · answered by joecool123_us 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to change the ozone is incorrect. The weather reports that it is ozone but it is not as it is NO2 . True ozone will kill as it is O3.
2007-07-27 08:31:11 · answer #6 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We've been having them since it quit raining a couple of weeks ago.
2007-07-27 07:21:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i dont stay out too long
2007-07-27 06:26:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋