Every year, we begin issuing our 5-day medium range air quality forecast discussions for the Mid-Atlantic region in the mid-May time period.   The medium range discussions are a great learning tool for our summer forecasting intern(s), so we usually wait to start issuing the discussions until the intern(s) begin working with us.  We also like to wait until the ozone season gets going, so we have something to discuss.  Our 2016 forecast intern, Matt Brown (check out his bio in the About Us section), began working with me today.  It’s looking like a fairly quiet week for air quality, so I’m going to get Matt oriented, and we’ll begin the forecast discussions next week.  The discussions will be similar to previous years, except we won’t be issuing them on the weekends this year, just on Mondays through Fridays.