Monday morning, the National Weather Service released this Air Quality statement:
"...AIR QUALITY ALERT REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON PDT THURSDAY...
The Washington State Department of Ecology has issued an Air Quality
Alert...in effect until noon PDT Thursday for the following counties
in central, south central and southeast Washington:
Benton
Columbia
Franklin
Kittitas
Klickitat
Walla Walla
The EPA has an air quality website, that provides quick and easy information about how bad, or good, our air is. Give the smoke and fires, they're probably getting record numbers of hits.
Radioactive Plutonium along with several other forms of minerals was found in the air after a recent air sample was taken by The Department Of Health near Handford on June 8th.