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PHOENIX<\/strong> – Step outside on Tuesday, and you\u2019ll notice right away \u2013 a haze is blanketing the Valley.<\/p>\n Walking across downtown Phoenix, it isn\u2019t just the heat that you\u2019ll notice, but the thick skies, too.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The poor air quality came in on Monday night<\/strong><\/a>, and it might stick around for Wednesday, July 2.<\/p>\n What\u2019s causing it? How long will it stick around?<\/p>\n Michael Graves, an air quality meteorologist with the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, said it’s not unusual to have dust at this time of year.<\/p>\n “Valley residents have woken up to a surprise this morning with rather thick, hazy, dusty conditions,” Graves said.<\/p>\n A timelapse of the air quality in the last 24 hours starts off with yellow moderate air, there\u2019s a quick shift to the red unhealthy levels, before moving to a deep purple, showing that the air quality is hazardous.<\/p>\n “Currently, dust levels are improving as the day heats up,” Graves said on July 1.<\/p>\n Graves says the main culprit of the thick air was overnight thunderstorms to our east.<\/p>\n “That resulted in gusty winds and blew it our direction,” he said, warning more might be on the way.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n The gloomy haze is coating the city, covering planes in the sky with a thin filter and shading South Mountain from view.<\/p>\n Here’s what some residents had to say.<\/p>\n “I woke up today, and it did look a little dusty \u2026 like a hazed tint.”<\/p>\n “Now it is very hazy.”<\/p>\n “To see it this morning, I was like, this is what bad visibility is.”<\/p>\n What you can do:<\/p>\n If you have breathing sensitivities, it\u2019s best to plan to stay inside and limit your time outside as much as possible.<\/p>\n Severe Weather<\/a>Arizona<\/a>News<\/a>Phoenix<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX – Step outside on Tuesday, and you\u2019ll notice right away \u2013 a haze is blanketing the Valley.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1588,50,1589,5313,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-32030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-maricopa-county","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-severe-weather","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114782515304472621","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}