The American Lung Association does not grade on a curve!
Los Angeles (weighted average 80.8 days of ozone) got an F on their air. So did Columbus Ohio (weighted average 6 days of ozone.) Of course we've heard about Los Angeles smog and ozone for years. No surprise there at all. I heard that the number two city was Pittsburgh PA. Surprise! Then I heard Cincinnati, Cleveland and Indianapolis all got F's.
I thought I was listening to a local radio station so I was sure Columbus must have done better since I never heard them say how the air in Columbus was graded.
I remember ozone alerts last summer....
I wrote about it on my other blog Columbus got an F The study is done by county and not all counties are shown... I don't know counties outside of a few states so I could not tell in a lot of areas how a particular community was rated, how some of the cities even in nearby states did in comparison to Columbus. Most of the City of Columbus is in Franklin County. A smidge of the City of Columbus is in Delaware County. Most of the other counties that comprise Greater Columbus aren't on the American Lung Association's list.
State of the Air from the American Lung Association
Ozone days:
LA County - Grade F - Weighted Avg. 80.8, Orange Days - 158, Red Days - 35, Purple Days- 16
FRANKLIN County - Grade - F - Weighted Avg. 6.0, Orange Days - 13, Red Days - 2, Purple Days- 1
DELAWARE County - Grade - D Weighted Avg. 2.2, Orange Days - 5, Red Days 1, Purpled Days - 0
I know to those with asthma, COPD, emphysema and other lung disease any day with ozone is one too many
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Maureen,... interesting. Thanks for the link. My county got an F in NJ. And only 3 counties got a D, everyone else, F's. But because New Jersey is so heavliy populated...dense, why would this not surprise any of us. But my weighted average was a 10.8 though and the average for NJ was around 5. What does this mean? thanks
Thanks for the Link Whatcom County WA got an A
Very interesting information Maureen. Almost every single Michigan county got a D or F with the exception of Leelanau. I was surprised.
Hi Maureen - thanks for the interesting post! Minneapolis did better than St. Paul! It pays to live on the "right" side of the river! :-)
We got a "B"- YAY!!! I bed Caracas, the city I'm from would fail instantly. Last time I visited I had a white purse and when I got home in the evening my purse was black with soot.
San Diego County- F
I guess we're just average...King County's got a C.
Maureen,
The answer is: it depends.
Dauphin County (Harrisburg) Got a D
Cumberland County (Harrisburg west shore) and Lebanon County were not rated.
We're right on the Dauphin-Lebanon line
According to today's newspaper, Cumberland County was rated 17th worst in the country and Dauphin County rated 25th worst
Thanks for the comments all.
Lisa I am looking at the ozone map more than the particles map mainly because it is such depressing news, I can't handle both. I had not noticed that they gave grades based on particles as well. Franklin County (where the majority of the City of Columbus is located) got an F on particles too.... In MN the first tab for ozone days, neither Hennepin or Ramsey county have a grade (I know MN counties from Active Rain, I have wondered why three Ramsey county AR members are at the top when there are so many more members from Hennapin County) I wondered if they don't measure ozone days in the Twin Cities. I know I could read more and figure out why some cities are ranked on one and not on the other.
Lola MI surprises me, I believe that Wayne County got a D on the ozone days list and Oakland County got an F. Isn't Detroit in Wayne County? I would think with all the manufacturing in the Detroit area that they would have a lower score than the suburbs. I know vehicle traffic accounts for a lot of it. We don't have much manufacturing in Columbus... Cleveland does, Cinci does, Dayton does. Dayton got a D and I remember Dayton as hard to breath... but it is a sinus thing rather than a lung thing, but they have manufacturing and are in a valley so I would have guessed they'd be an F and Columbus would be a C at worst... shows how much I know.
Ben I think a C is a great grade! That was the best grade in our whole state. In Ohio as in most states I am sure there are rural counties that are skipped over all together.
Michael... don't gloat. ;-)
Brian I remember the thing I heard on the radio said all cities in CA got failing grades except Salinas? I don't know whether I looked to see if that was what I heard on the radio.
Ines I saw you are from Venezuela just recently. I wondered if you were from Caracas. I have a listing on Caracas Drive the neighborhood has many foreign city names. I like saying Caracas. I roll my R's like the Taco Bell commercials for carne asada, of course after 6 years of Spanish classes the fact that I can roll my r's is just a small triumph. I can't believe Miami gets a B! There has to be a lot more to this than my brain can grasp...wind, being in a valley, not being in a valley in addition to industry and
Fred at least your air smells like chocolate.
We can surely work at the community, state, country level for reduction of smog. But, there are still about 25% of the population that inhale more smog from cigarettes daily than they ever will from the air outside their homes. Of course, they get a double whammy of polutions when smoking in smog.
Curiously they started enforcing our statewide public smoking ban yesterday so your comment and the 25% made me think of another Acitve Rain post Lenn, about smoking bans.
Most Central Ohio communities had smoking bans for a year or so now... but there were the hold outs here. It was strange visiting another city and seeing people smoke, being asked "Smoking or non smoking." I thought from something Caron Mosey wrote on Active Rain once, Michigan might have banned smoking.
Marin County, California- A. I am always amazed when I travel to other parts of the country and see all the smokers. In Marin, people who smoke must hide it. Of course, we have smoking bans, so I rarely see anyone smoking.