Monday is an ozone alert day

[RecycleMichael]

This is going to be a tough week for Tulsa and air quality. The wind just stopped.

Please don't buy any gas tomorrow morning. If you really need fuel for the car, buy it tonight. Try to avoid any extra driving tomorrow. Telecommute, carpool, ride the bus or just sleep in.

At minimum, bring your lunch or walk to a restaurant tomorrow. The lunch emissions are among the most likely to cause ozone.

Tulsa is desperately close to exceeding the limits on two of it's monitors. If we all don't step up tomorrow, we will go into non-compliance.

[Wilbur]

I'll drive (carpool).  Four-point harness and a signed waiver are the only requirements.

[Double A]

I am keeping my fingers crossed we can make it, but I can't help but recognize the fact it will probably take a minor miracle not to exceed. I'll do my best to do my part. Pray for rain.

[rwarn17588]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

The lunch emissions are among the most likely to cause ozone.

Especially if you eat beans.

[waterboy]

I'm walking to work. Its only a mile but it all counts.

[Wrinkle]

Maybe we could get Sunoco and Sinclair to alternate OAD's and cut production to half on those days.

...that should just about do it.

[patric]

I wonder what impact large fires (like the burning chemical truck this morning) will have on our readings?

[Nik]

I.....will be getting gas today. I have to. I might wait until the sun goes down but I can't wait much longer.

[RecycleMichael]

It is too early to tell.

Right now the west monitor looks good. The highest one hour reading so far today is the south monitor in Glenpool.

Midtown is 36 parts per billion as I write this.
West is 37, north is 38, east is 43 and south is 44.

The readings start going up after lunch till sundown. The pre-lunch numbers might not even be in the equation. The official number is the highest eight hour period averaged out.

[Double A]

It's not looking good. The north readings(.086) look like they will cause us to exceed on the three year average and we haven't made it past the afternoon rush hour yet.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by Double A

It's not looking good. The north readings(.086) look like they will cause us to exceed on the three year average and we haven't made it past the afternoon rush hour yet.

Keep in mind the eight hour averages are used to base the three year average.

[Double A]

quote:Originally posted by Hoss

quote:Originally posted by Double A

It's not looking good. The north readings(.086) look like they will cause us to exceed on the three year average and we haven't made it past the afternoon rush hour yet.

Keep in mind the eight hour averages are used to base the three year average.

That's right. My mistake, I am glad I was wrong about that. It looks like we made it through without  exceeding. It's kinda weird that the info for the north station has not been available since about 5 p.m., though.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by Double A

quote:Originally posted by Hoss

quote:Originally posted by Double A

It's not looking good. The north readings(.086) look like they will cause us to exceed on the three year average and we haven't made it past the afternoon rush hour yet.

Keep in mind the eight hour averages are used to base the three year average.

That's right. My mistake, I am glad I was wrong about that. It looks like we made it through without  exceeding. It's kinda weird that the info for the north station has not been available since about 5 p.m., though.

Yeah, I noticed it seemed about pegged since noon.  I'm guessing that might have to do with the prevailing southerly wind (or what we had of one today).  Plus, the elevation of the land in the north is a little higher than everywhere else, so the ozone settles a little denser than it would in a lower elevation area.

[RecycleMichael]

The eight hour average got up to 64 parts per billion. We survived.

70 parts per billion today would have doomed us.

Thank you for all who did something today to help our air.

[Double A]

The fact is was a Monday probably helped, too. It seems like the traffic is heavier during the weekdays that are closer to the weekend. I was able to avoid driving till after it got dark.