Air Quality Forecast

Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Ozone	AQI	Rating	Fine Particles	AQI	Rating
West Greenwich & Vicinity	90	Moderate	West Greenwich & Vicinity	60	Moderate
Providence & Vicinity	75	Moderate	Providence & Vicinity	70	Moderate
Southern & Coastal	105	UNHEALTHY	Southern & Coastal	60	Moderate

Thursday, July 31, 2025
Ozone	AQI	Rating	Fine Particles	AQI	Rating
West Greenwich & Vicinity	44	Good	West Greenwich & Vicinity	52	Moderate
Providence & Vicinity	43	Good	Providence & Vicinity	60	Moderate
Southern & Coastal	44	Good	Southern & Coastal	54	Moderate

Friday, August 1, 2025
Ozone	AQI	Rating	Fine Particles	AQI	Rating
West Greenwich & Vicinity	40	Good	West Greenwich & Vicinity	40	Good
Providence & Vicinity	39	Good	Providence & Vicinity	48	Good
Southern & Coastal	42	Good	Southern & Coastal	38	Good

Forecast Discussion

Monday, July 28, 2025 | Updated 10:15 AM

An Air Quality Alert is again being issued, this time for Wednesday July 30th for UNHEALTHY ozone for Washington and Newport County. MODERATE elsewhere. Mostly sunny until late day, with SW winds, and hot temperatures in the 90s. Fine particles continue to be elevated to MODERATE. A big shift occurs Thursday as NE winds develop, high temps stay in the 70s, with clouds and showers. Fine particles look to remain MODERATE with some smoke still around, but ozone drops back to GOOD. GOOD ozone expected on Friday, continued cool, with highs only in the low 70s, with clouds and steady NE winds. Some lingering fire smoke still possible, forecasting upper GOOD for now.

Air Quality Index (AQI)

Rating	Index	Cautionary Statements
Good	0-50	Air quality is considered satisfactory and air pollution poses little or no risk.
Moderate	51-100	Air quality is acceptable; however, for some pollutants there may be a moderate health concern for a very small number of people who are unusually sensitive to air pollution.
Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups	101-150	Members of sensitive groups may experience health effects. The general public is not likely to be affected.
Unhealthy	151-200	Everyone may begin to experience health effects; members of sensitive groups may experience more serious health effects.
Very Unhealthy	201-300	Health Alert: Everyone may experience more serious health effects.
Hazardous	301 and higher	Health warnings of emergency conditions. The entire population is more likely to be affected.

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