U.S. Air Quality

Unhealthy Air Quality in California, Moderate in the Central US

Unhealthy air quality continues in California, and air quality was in the moderate range over the central US. There are also a few scatter monitors in the yellow range over the northeast. The right image is today's MODIS AQUA RGB view from google earth (thanks to SSEC at the University of Wisconsin), see link to the right under "UW MODIS Today USA Composite" showing pretty dense haze over the southern half of the central California Valley and moderate haze over the Pacific.The left image is today's MODIS retrieval showing high AOD amounts over California and off the coast.