Gwinnett Daily Post | Metro Atlanta breaks clean air record in 2013

LAWRENCEVILLE — While it has been full of rain clouds, this summer has been free thus far from smog.

With still nary a smog alert in state, the state has passed the previous record for the first exceedance in a calendar year by a week already.

A problem as typical for metro Atlantans each summer as sunburns and sweat, smog is typically cooked by the time temperatures sore in July, but so far so good this year.

The previous record for waiting for smog in summertime in Hotlanta was July 14 of 1997, a year after the Environmental Protection Division began monitoring air quality, said Clean Air Campaign spokesman Brian Carr.

via Gwinnett Daily Post | Metro Atlanta breaks clean air record in 2013.