TV Weather

By providing Air Quality Index forecasts and reports during your weathercast, you can help millions of people protect their health. The links below will take you to documents and tools to assist as you provide this important air quality information to your viewers.

Links and Reference Material
Links
AIRNow Fact Sheet (313KB PDF)
AIRNow Mapping Fact Sheet (319KB PDF)
Year-Round AQI Forecasts Fact Sheet	Factual overview
AQI At-A-Glance Messages	Color coded chart for quick reference
Air Quality Guide for Particle Pollution Also available in PDF format. (65KB PDF)	Background fact sheet about particles
AQI- A Guide to Air Quality and Your Health	Background booklet on air quality and health issues
Talking Points for Meteorologists	Talking points on the expanded AQI forecasts for your viewers
Tips on How to Introduce Year-Round AQI Forecasts to Your Viewers	Suggestions for introducing AQI to your viewers
Myths and Facts	About the AQI, particles and ozone
PSA Scripts (29KB PDF)
Real-time AQI animations for ozone	Ozone and Particles(2.5) maps are available on a national basis

Powerpoint Slides
About Particles (1.7MB PPT)	Overview about particles
A New Way to Look at the Atmosphere (6.2MB PPT) twc-6-25AMCD.mpeg (8.2MB MPG) WDBJ-6-24_rev.mpg (9.1MB MPG) These files are linked to the above presentation and should be downloaded into the same directory. They are also bundled and available for download in ZIP format. (21.8MB ZIP)	Expanded Air Quality Index - American Meteorological Society presentation (8/11/03)
AIRNow and the AQI (16 MB PPT)	National Weather Association presentation (10/17/04)

Additional Reference Material
Ozone Air Quality Guide
Ozone and Your Health
Smoke from Fires and Your Health
Ozone: Good Up High, Bad Nearby
Smog, Who Does it Hurt?
Particles and Your Health

For More Information
Contacts	Phone	Email
Richard "Chet" Wayland - Meteorologist	919-541-4603	Wayland.Richard@epa.gov
Debbie Stackhouse - Outreach	919-541-5354	Stackhouse.Debbie@epa.gov
Susan Stone - Health	919-541-1146	Stone.Susan@epa.gov
Alison Davis - Media	919-541-7587	Davis.Alison@epa.gov

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the Adobe PDF files on this page. See AIRNow's PDF page for more information about getting and using the free Acrobat Reader.

Viewing Requirements: Viewing an MPEG file and best viewed using any of the following free media players. To get one of these players, you can click on the hyper-links below (Note: you will exit AIRNow space).

Windows Media Player; Real Player; Apple Quicktime


AIRNow is a government-backed program. Through AIRNow, EPA, NOAA, NPS, news media, tribal, state, and local agencies work together to report conditions for ozone and particle pollution.





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