An Excessive Heat Warning is in effect
Friday, Sept 4 at 10 AM until Monday, Sept 7 at 8PM
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Friday, Sept 4 at 10 AM until Monday, Sept 7 at 8PM
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Warnings for Phoenix (PSR) - National Weather Service
Stay safe in the extreme heat, visit HeatAZ.org.
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Heat Reports
https://www.maricopa.gov/1858/Heat-Surveillance
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Heat Reports
https://www.maricopa.gov/1858/Heat-Surveillance
Heat Surveillance reports are generated weekly during the heat season and an annual heat surveillance mortality and morbidity report are available summarizing the data.
The weekly reporting time periods are from Sunday to Saturday, week ending (W/E) is always a Saturday.
Click on a link below to the corresponding weekly or annual report to see more information.
For additional heat safety information please visit our Heat Safety page.
For additional heat safety information please visit our Heat Safety page.
> Seasonal Weekly Reports
(Heat Season: May - October)
(Heat Season: May - October)
2020 Heat Mortality/Morbidity Reports (reporting time period is from Sunday to Saturday, week ending (W/E) is always a Saturday). Reports are not posted after Week 40.
- View the Most Recent Heat Mortality / Morbidity Report (PDF)
- View All the Weekly Heat Mortality / Morbidity Reports
> Yearly Mortality Reports
Browse through our current and past mortality reports.
> Multi-Year Morbidity Report
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DATA IS BEAUTIFUL
DataIsBeautiful
A place to share and discuss visual representations of data: Graphs, charts, maps, etc.
DataIsBeautiful is for visualizations that effectively convey information. Aesthetics are an important part of information visualization, but pretty pictures are not the sole aim of this subreddit.
Source is the EPA’s Air Quality Index data
"Phoenix has something called the “Brown Cloud,” where a nightly temperature inversion traps air in the valley where Phoenix sits, and that air picks up both pollution and already-existing dust from all over the area.
In the late 90s and early 2000s, Maricopa County was notoriously bad (at least among EPA officials) at regulation particulate pollution, and they were given until 2007 to solve the problem.
You can see it kept getting worse right up until the deadline, in no small part due to
- the housing boom (massive increase in construction
- transportation through the massive suburb that is Phoenix).
Unfortunately, this means Phoenix is quickly losing its status as a place to go for people with respiratory diseases, as the air here is consistently bad."
__________________________________________________Phoenix has some of the worst air quality in US, report finds
PHOENIX — When it comes to ozone and short-term particle pollution, Phoenix is one of the most polluted metropolitan areas in the country, according to an annual report card from the American Lung Association.
The health organization released its “State of the Air" report, now in its 20th year, Wednesday which included a ranking of the most polluted and cleanest U.S. cities according to air quality.
