Air quality concerns in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has declared an air quality alert from midnight Wednesday through midnight Thursday night for a third of the state’s counties. The alert includes Indianapolis.
This alert, unlike others issued earlier this month, was not cited as being connected to smoke from Canadian wildfires. Ground-level ozone, also known as smog, forms during warm temperatures when certain pollutants react in the presence of heat and sunlight. On Wednesday afternoon, the Storm Track 8 seven-day forecast called for a high temperature of 86 on Thursday.
Counties in the alert area at Bartholomew, Boone, Brown, Clark, Clinton, Decatur, Delaware, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Hamilton, Hancock, Harrison, Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Jefferson, Johnson, Madison, Marion, Monroe, Morgan, Ohio, Randolph, Ripley, Rush, Scott, Shelby, Switzerland, Tipton, Union, Washington andWayne…