{"id":4338,"date":"2015-09-09T10:38:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T14:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2015-09-09T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:41:53","slug":"how-does-your-air-quality-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/how-does-your-air-quality-compare\/","title":{"rendered":"How does your air compare?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I&#8217;ve been asked where the cleanest air in the US is located. \u00a0This is especially important for those who have health issues related to breathing, such as COPD, allergies, or cystic fibrosis. \u00a0It can be hard to find this information since monitoring is usually done by individual state agencies who don&#8217;t all use the same format for reporting. \u00a0For example, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.air.dnr.state.ga.us\/amp\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is the air quality monitoring site for Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an EPA site which allows you to compare air quality across different regions of the US. Keep in mind that not all areas monitor their air, so your county may or may not be represented. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/aircompare\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/aircompare\/index.htm<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0You can also get more complete data from EPA cities with the\u00a0cleanest and dirtiest air at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stateoftheair.org\/2015\/city-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.stateoftheair.org\/2015\/city-rankings\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are looking for pollen data, here are a couple of options:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pollen.com\/allergy-weather-forecast.asp\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.pollen.com\/allergy-weather-forecast.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaaai.org\/global\/nab-pollen-counts.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.aaaai.org\/global\/nab-pollen-counts.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/aircompare3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4339\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/aircompare3-300x107.jpg\" alt=\"aircompare3\" width=\"510\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/aircompare3-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/aircompare3-386x138.jpg 386w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/aircompare3.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally I&#8217;ve been asked where the cleanest air in the US is located. \u00a0This is especially important for those who have health issues related to breathing, such as COPD, allergies, or cystic fibrosis. \u00a0It can be hard to find this information since monitoring is usually done by individual state agencies who don&#8217;t all use the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sources-of-weather-and-climate-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4352,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions\/4352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}