Latest Spare the Air ties the Bay Area record

Another day. Another reminder from the Bay Area Air Quality Management District that the air has been historically unhealthy this year.

Smoke from the Kincade Fire is expected to keep Bay Area skies hazy enough on Thursday that the district issued a Spare the Air alert from the fourth consecutive day and a record-tying 27th time this year. It will be the seventh time in eight days that the district is warning residents to reduce air pollution.

Air quality improved for much of the region on Wednesday, with readings of particulate matter in the air showing below 50 throughout the Bay Area. The one exception was in Gilroy, where bay area district monitors registered readings of particulate matter above 150 at 11 a.m.

Any readings of 151 and above are considered unhealthy.

Winds eased Tuesday, but smoke that drifted from fires in Northern and Southern California drifted and settled near Gilroy, which attributed to the higher numbers there, according to the district.

The district’s Thursday forecast indicates moderately unhealthy air through the region through Sunday.

The Spare the Air on Thursday will match the number issued in 2016 as the most since the district began keeping records in 1991.

The district issued 13 alerts ast year.