{"id":32320,"date":"2025-07-02T10:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32320\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T10:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T10:16:11","slug":"phoenix-area-residents-wake-up-to-hazy-skies-heres-why-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32320\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix area residents wake up to hazy skies: Here&#8217;s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Valley is experiencing thick, hazy, and dusty conditions that began Monday night due to gusty winds from overnight thunderstorms to the east, leading to hazardous air quality.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An air quality advisory is in effect for Tuesday and Wednesday, with officials advising residents, especially those with breathing sensitivities, to limit outdoor activities.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>PHOENIX<\/strong> &#8211; Step outside on Tuesday, and you\u2019ll notice right away \u2013 a haze is blanketing the Valley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Walking across downtown Phoenix, it isn\u2019t just the heat that you\u2019ll notice, but the thick skies, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What we know<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox10phoenix.com\/weather-alerts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:poor air quality came in on Monday night;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><strong>poor air quality came in on Monday night<\/strong><\/a>, and it might stick around for Wednesday, July 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What\u2019s causing it? How long will it stick around?<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michael Graves, an air quality meteorologist with the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality, said it&#8217;s not unusual to have dust at this time of year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Valley residents have woken up to a surprise this morning with rather thick, hazy, dusty conditions,&#8221; Graves said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Currently, dust levels are improving as the day heats up,&#8221; Graves said on July 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Graves says the main culprit of the thick air was overnight thunderstorms to our east.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;That resulted in gusty winds and blew it our direction,&#8221; he said, warning more might be on the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What they&#8217;re saying<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The gloomy haze is coating the city, covering planes in the sky with a thin filter and shading South Mountain from view.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Here&#8217;s what some residents had to say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I woke up today, and it did look a little dusty \u2026 like a hazed tint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Now it is very hazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;To see it this morning, I was like, this is what bad visibility is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>What you can do<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you have breathing sensitivities, it\u2019s best to plan to stay inside and limit your time outside as much as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The Valley is experiencing thick, hazy, and dusty conditions that began Monday night due to gusty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[12986,5229,5643,1587,27161,27162,27159,1589,5314,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,27160],"class_list":{"0":"post-32320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-air-quality","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-dusty-conditions","13":"tag-gusty-winds","14":"tag-michael-graves","15":"tag-phoenix","16":"tag-thunderstorms","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-valley-residents"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114783124424403900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32320","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=32320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}