{"id":6657,"date":"2018-11-28T11:51:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T19:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=6657"},"modified":"2018-11-28T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T19:51:37","slug":"air-stagnation-advisory-issued-for-yakima-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/air-stagnation-advisory-issued-for-yakima-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Stagnation Advisory Issued for Yakima Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\">The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued an air stagnation advisory for the Yakima area that is in effect through 12:00 pm on Friday, November 30<sup><span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span><\/sup>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\">The advisory was issued this morning, Wednesday, due to a surface inversion that is allowing pollutants to become trapped.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\">Poor air quality may cause issues for those with respiratory problems, the NWS said in its advisory. As a result, those with respiratory illness are advised to follow their physician&#8217;s advice for dealing with potentially high levels of air pollution during periods of stagnant air.<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: black;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: windowtext;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\">The Yakima Regional Clean Air Agency has issued a Stage 1 Burn Ban. As a result, only EPA-certified devices (wood, pellet stoves and inserts) may be used. All outdoor burning is banned countywide.<\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: windowtext;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: windowtext;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\">Visit <\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimacleanair.org\/\">https:\/\/www.yakimacleanair.org\/<\/a><\/span><span style=\"margin: 0px;color: windowtext;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;font-size: 11pt;font-weight: normal\"> for more about the Clean Air Agency and the current burn ban status.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Air-Stagnation-Advisory-News-Release-1.pdf\">Air Stagnation Advisory &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued an air stagnation advisory for the Yakima area that is in effect through 12:00 pm on Friday, November 30th. The advisory was issued this morning, Wednesday, due to a surface inversion that is allowing pollutants to become trapped. Poor air quality may cause issues for those with respiratory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6659,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6657\/revisions\/6659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}