While that is a song of the 80’s, the reality for us is temperatures in the 90’s (by the way, when did the decade of the 90’s become retro?…I feel so old!) Sorry, got sidetracked…

As Lisa mentioned in her entry last night, our first air quality alert was issued yesterday for today. Air quality will be in the moderate category today, meaning those people sensitive to low level ozone and pollutants must take precautuion today. Here are some tips:

1) Limit your car use as much as possible, carpool if possible.
2) If you do drive, combine errands, limit engine idling and avoid rush hour if possible.
3) Don’t use gas powered yard equipment if you don’t need to.
4) Limit your time outdoors, especially between 2-7 pm.

Here’s the official website with our air quality forecast:
www.cleanairpartnership.info
On that site you can sign up to have the alerts e-mailed to you daily. Or if you prefer to use the phone, the hotline number is (615) 340-0488.

Hazy sunshine, heat and humidity will last at least through the middle of next week (you can see the 7 day forecast above.) While that may the big story for the weekend outdoor activities, by early next week we will be talking about the lack of rainfall again. 2.60″ of rain at Nashville International with very little hope of adding onto that. It won’t be one of the top 10 driest Junes but we are supposed to have 4.08″ this month. Put that on top of the 3rd driest May, and we could start using the “d” word soon.

Looking for hope is what we do though…there is a low spinning over Florida this morning. Some maps have it moving up the eastern seaboard over the weekend. Others, across the Gulf of Mexico toward Texas. Could this mean a better chance of rain early next week? We’ll see. We do know we need it!

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