The AccuWeather app gives you the ability to monitor pollution and air quality levels in your area. These factors impact your health and can help you make decisions about outdoor activities.
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00:00There are many tools to help you optimize your health, safety and comfort on the free
00:04AccuWeather app.
00:06And one of those features is looking at the air quality, current conditions and forecast
00:10information.
00:11Let's dive into that in today's top pick on the AccuWeather app.
00:13And of course, when you're at the main home screen of the AccuWeather app, you can see
00:17we're over in Dodge City, Kansas here today, but you can tap there and type in any location
00:22around the country and around the world, your exclusive AccuWeather MinuteCast, minute-by-minute
00:27forecast out to four hours, but when you click down on the right-hand side of the screen
00:31here on the tablet version or on the phone version, you scroll down a little bit.
00:35And when you scroll down all the way to air quality, that gives you a report about the
00:39current air quality.
00:41In other words, is there pollution in the air in your community right now?
00:45And that's on a little, on a circle here.
00:47And the more that circle that's filled up, the worse the air quality is.
00:50So you can see in Dodge City right now, that's a 129 on the AccuWeather air quality index,
00:56which is unhealthy.
00:57And we describe what can happen there.
00:59Health effects can immediately be felt by sensitive groups, people that may experience
01:04difficulty breathing and throat irritation, things of that nature.
01:07You can scroll down a little bit further, I'm sorry, you can tap on that see more button
01:11actually and get a breakdown of the particular things that are causing pollution.
01:16Here it's particulate today across the Dodge City area, so those little particles that are
01:21in the air as opposed to some of the gases, and those gases are listed out on the bottom.
01:25So again, you have a sense of what is causing that air pollution.
01:28And when you tap on the hourly forecast in the Premium Plus app, you can bring up the air
01:33quality index and track it, how it changes over time so you can make the best plans.
01:37AccuWeather has been proven to be the most accurate source of weather forecasts and warnings.
01:42Download the free AccuWeather app today.