Maybe you’ve seen it, or maybe you’ve felt it in your throat and your lungs. The air quality in Kansas City has been at the least, ugly, and at its worst, unhealthy, over the past few days. The three consecutive days of ozone alerts are unusual in an area that sometimes has calendar years without any ozone alerts being issued. Several U.S. cities are also experiencing days of poor air quality. Smoke in the air from massive wildfires in Canada mixing with other pollutants that hang over most large cities is suspected to be the main cause of the phenomenon. But there was a time when the atmosphere over KC was filled with unhealthy levels of pollutants on a far more frequent basis. Much of what stained the air in the 1960s and 1970s was produced locally and was called “smog.” Take a look through the years at the link in our bio. #KCWeather #OzoneAlert #AirQuality #CanadaWildfire