Smoke From Fires In GA, FL Has Apparently Reached Middle Tennessee

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Winds from the Southeast apparently are pushing the smoky haze up from fire-ravaged north Florida and south Georgia into Middle Tennessee, but it's not a health risk, according to a public health official. "It is an unusual amount of haze," Sam Herron, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Nashville, said Monday afternoon.

He said that while there is no definitive proof that the haze and the smoky smell in the air in some parts of Middle Tennessee came from the Southeast fires, "the consensus" among Weather Service workers is that that is exactly what's happening.

"We have had a little disturbance that has moved up from the Southeast, so the general flow of air is coming from south Georgia and Florida, going up across Georgia and Alabama and is starting to come into Middle Tennessee," Herron said.

Fred Huggins, a Public Health Department pollution control representative, said particulate monitors, which measure fine particles in the air, back up the theory.

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http://www.rctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070515/NEWS01/705150358/1006/MTCN0301

[BOSSHOG]

1. Local New Orleans weathercaster last night

said we should be seeing some of that smoke by the end of the week. Strange weather map yesterday, storm clouds moving southwest to northeast, at the same time storm clouds moving northeast to southwest around the South Louisiana, South Mississippi area.