The American Lung Association does not grade on a curve!
Los Angeles (weighted average 80.8 days of ozone) got an F on their air. So did Columbus Ohio (weighted average 6 days of ozone.) Of course we've heard about Los Angeles smog and ozone for years. No surprise there at all. I heard that the number two city was Pittsburgh PA. Surprise! Then I heard Cincinnati, Cleveland and Indianapolis all got F's.
I thought I was listening to a local radio station so I was sure Columbus must have done better since I never heard them say how the air in Columbus was graded.
I remember ozone alerts last summer....
I wrote about it on my other blog Columbus got an F The study is done by county and not all counties are shown... I don't know counties outside of a few states so I could not tell in a lot of areas how a particular community was rated, how some of the cities even in nearby states did in comparison to Columbus. Most of the City of Columbus is in Franklin County. A smidge of the City of Columbus is in Delaware County. Most of the other counties that comprise Greater Columbus aren't on the American Lung Association's list.
State of the Air from the American Lung Association
Ozone days:
LA County - Grade F - Weighted Avg. 80.8, Orange Days - 158, Red Days - 35, Purple Days- 16
FRANKLIN County - Grade - F - Weighted Avg. 6.0, Orange Days - 13, Red Days - 2, Purple Days- 1
DELAWARE County - Grade - D Weighted Avg. 2.2, Orange Days - 5, Red Days 1, Purpled Days - 0
I know to those with asthma, COPD, emphysema and other lung disease any day with ozone is one too many
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