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Air Quality Advisory
National Weather Service Marquette MI
151 PM EDT Tue Jun 3 2025

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151 PM EDT Tue Jun 3 2025 /1251 PM CDT Tue Jun 3 2025/

...AIR QUALITY ALERT FOR TUESDAY-WEDNESDAY JUNE 3-4...

The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality is upgrading to an
Air Quality Alert for elevated levels of fine particulates (PM2.5) in
the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, for Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3-4.
Pollutants within those areas could reach the Unhealthy (Red AQI)
range or higher.

The alert is in effect for the following Michigan Counties,

Menominee, Keweenaw, Dickinson, Iron, Marquette, Baraga, Southern
Schoolcraft, Northern Houghton, Delta, Ontonagon, Gogebic, Luce,
Alger, Northern Schoolcraft, and Southern Houghton.

It is recommended that, when possible, you avoid strenuous outdoor
activities, especially those with heart disease and respiratory
diseases such as asthma.

Monitor for symptoms such as wheezing, coughing, chest tightness,
dizziness, or burning in nose, throat, and eyes. Reduce or eliminate
activities that contribute to air pollution, such as outdoor
burning, and use of residential wood burning devices.

Keep windows closed overnight to prevent smoke from getting indoors
and, if possible, run central air conditioning with MERV-13 or
higher rated filters.

For further information, please see EPA`s Air Now site for up-to-
date air quality data at https://www.airnow.gov

For further health information, please see MDHHS` Wildfire Smoke and
Your Health site at https://www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/safety-injury-
prev/environmental-health/your-health-and-wildfire-smoke.

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