The city's air quality was graded 'unhealthy' due to a high presence of particulate...
after moving in from West Texas, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether the same was causing the haze in Houston.
Dust storms with winds reaching speeds as high as 69 mph have blanketed West Texas in a thick layer of dust recently,. The region has been under an air-quality warning, a low visibility warning and a high wind advisory. Pollen counts were also up in Houston on Monday, according to data from the city’s Health Department. The level of tree pollen in the air was considered “extremely high,” while the level of grass pollen was “high.”
Houston’s air pollution is relatively high due to its industrial corridor, being near many refineries. Loren Hopkins, the chief environmental science officer for the city’s health department, previously told the Chronicle that Houstonians
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