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City issues ozone alert, sees temps hit near 100
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The city of Albuquerque issued a health alert due to elevated ozone levels as temps flirted with the century mark Monday.
A health alert has been issued every day since July 9 with the exception of Saturday, city spokeswoman Maia Rodriguez said.
The city doesn’t usually have this many days of elevated ozone levels in a short period of time, city meteorologist Jeff Stonesifer said.
Rodriguez said those who are most vulnerable to the elevated ozone levels should limit their outdoor activities.
In addition to limiting outdoor activities, the city listed other suggestions including:
- Keeping windows and doors closed. If needed for comfort, use air conditioners or heating systems on recycle/recirculation mode.
- Contacting a health care provider if symptoms of heart or lung disease occur, (including shortness of breath, chest tightness, chest pain, palpitations or unusual fatigue).
- Following a prescribed asthma management plan.
- For daily air quality alerts, Rodriguez said people can text “ABQHEALTH” to 226787 for English or “ABQSALUD” for Spanish.
Along with the health alert, the city saw temperatures reach 100 degrees in some places Monday, which is a degree short of the record of 101 set in 1980, National Weather Service of Albuquerque meteorologist Jennifer Shoemake said.
She said temps are expected to be 99 or 100 on Tuesday, which would be five degrees shy of the record set in 1980, 104.
