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Mapping the Noxious Ozone Plumes Over Houston
A new app from Texas researchers shows how clouds of lung-pummeling ozone move through Houston neighborhoods.
Smartphone technology makes it easy nowadays to avoid thunderstorms. Just download a Doppler-radar app, and you'll rarely be caught in the middle of a cornfield with a monster tornado passing through.
And now there's an app that monitors chemical weather – in particular, the noxious clouds of ozone that noiselessly drift through cities, scorching lungs, triggering asthma attacks and herding urbanites toward their premature deaths.