Air Quality Forecast

Saturday, July 26, 2025
Ozone	AQI	Rating	Fine Particles	AQI	Rating
West Greenwich & Vicinity	48	Good	West Greenwich & Vicinity	90	Moderate
Providence & Vicinity	46	Good	Providence & Vicinity	80	Moderate
Southern & Coastal	48	Good	Southern & Coastal	90	Moderate

Sunday, July 27, 2025
Ozone	AQI	Rating	Fine Particles	AQI	Rating
West Greenwich & Vicinity	44	Good	West Greenwich & Vicinity	60	Moderate
Providence & Vicinity	46	Good	Providence & Vicinity	70	Moderate
Southern & Coastal	48	Good	Southern & Coastal	65	Moderate

Monday, July 28, 2025
Ozone	AQI	Rating	Fine Particles	AQI	Rating
West Greenwich & Vicinity	49	Good	West Greenwich & Vicinity	56	Moderate
Providence & Vicinity	49	Good	Providence & Vicinity	65	Moderate
Southern & Coastal	49	Good	Southern & Coastal	56	Moderate

Forecast Discussion

Saturday, July 24, 2025 | Updated 9:15 AM

Canadian firesmoke has moved into RI around sunrise this morning with values into the UNHEALTHY continuing for several hours through midday. Improving through the afternoon and evening to mid MODERATE. Hazy sunshine, easterly flow, with highs in the 70s. MODERATE fine particles continues on Sunday with lingering fire smoke. Clouds and showers during the afternoon and overnight. Highs in the mid 70s with light south winds. Sunshine and hot weather for Monday, highs in the 90s. Ozone may reach MODERATE Mon/Tues. Looks like some continued firesmoke will keep partilces elevated to low MODERATE.

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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