Air quality health advisory

Air quality will be “unhealthy for sensitive groups,” including the elderly, young children and people with respiratory disease (such as asthma), who should consider limiting strenuous outdoor activities, according to the advisory.

An air quality health advisory and a heat advisory will be in effect Wednesday for the Long Island region. The heat advisory will extend to 8 p.m. Thursday.

The pollutant of concern is ground-level ozone, health officials said.Air quality will be “unhealthy for sensitive groups,” including the elderly, young children and people respiratory disease (such as asthma), who should consider limiting strenuous outdoor activities, according to the advisory.

Air quality Wednesday will be "unhealthy for sensitive groups," including the elderly, young children and people respiratory disease (such as asthma), who should consider limiting strenuous outdoor activities, according to the advisory.

An air quality health advisory is in effect Saturday for Long Island and the NYC metro region.The pollutant of concern is ground-level ozone, the State Department of Environmental Conservation said.

An air quality health advisory is in effect Thursday for Long Island and the NYC metro region. The pollutant of concern is ground-level ozone.

Hazy, hot and humid weather has prompted heat and air quality advisories for Long Island. Expect heat index values up around 100 Thursday and Friday, the weather service said.

An air quality health advisory is in effect today for the Long Island and Metropolitan New Your City regions. The pollutant of...

Smoke and haze from 83 large wildfires in the the western U.S. are moving across New York State, prompting health officials to issue an air quality health advisory for fine particulate matter today. It is in effect through midnight.

Both the heat advisory and the air quality health advisory remain in effect Friday, July 16 through the evening.