Wildfire smoke from Canada has led to poor air quality for many parts of the U.S. Here's how the free AccuWeather app can help you keep track of pollution and air quality hazards in your area.
00:00Wildfire smoke from distant fires across Canada resulting in significant air quality reductions across parts of the northeastern United States over the recent days and that's going to continue for the next couple as well.
00:17We have several tools in the free AccuWeather app to help you to monitor and track those air quality reductions and of course optimize your health, safety and comfort and stay safer.
00:28That's what we do here at AccuWeather and after you download the free AccuWeather app, which you can do by scanning the QR code on the screen, that'll bring you to a page that enables you to download the free AccuWeather app very easily, scroll down the page and that enables you to access even more localized content from AccuWeather and I want to drill down to the air quality section and you'll notice that we have the AccuWeather AQI, that's the air quality index, that's a number that describes how polluted the air is.
00:57The higher the number, the higher the concern about air quality impacts and in this particular example 76 and we put not only the number so you can track that minute by minute and hour by hour but also the description here, poor, air quality has reached a high level of pollution and is unhealthy for sensitive groups and we have actionable statements for different categorizations of the air quality.
01:19You can also look at that hour by hour, so let's go over to New York City and do that and on the premium plus version of the AccuWeather app, which you can engage within the AccuWeather app, you have many different parameters you can plot along the top weather parameters ranging from rainfall to temperature, AccuWeather real fuel, but go over to the air quality and as you scroll out in time that allows you to monitor the air quality and how it's going to evolve over the next several days hour by hour.
01:45AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings. Better protect your family and keep them safer. Download the free AccuWeather app today.
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