Air Quality

AQI Forecast

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Daily AQI Table

Pollutant04/25/2504/26/2504/27/2504/28/2504/29/25
Ozone4346455158
PM2.55951355153

Synopsis and Discussion

After a cloudy start to the morning, skies have become mostly sunny across the Triad this afternoon to allow air quality levels to rise into the lower Code YELLOW range. A chance of showers and possible thunderstorms remain into the evening hours as a cold front passes through the region, ushering in a drier and cooler Canadian air mass that will settle over the Triad tomorrow. The air mass upstream is relatively clean and should drop particle pollution into the middle to upper Code GREEN range for both pollutants. Ozone production may increase, but northerly winds should help dissipate any elevated areas of ozone concentrations to keep ozone AQI Code GREEN. The ridge of high pressure slides offshore on Monday to allow for southerly winds to initiate a warming trend that will persist through Tuesday. With that said, air quality levels are expected to rise into the lower to middle Code YELLOW range for Monday and Tuesday. (Payne)

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Air Monitoring Data

The Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection is making data available from the county's air monitoring network as a public service. These data represent the hourly data set from all of the sites within this network. Data from Triad sites outside of Forsyth County are collected by the North Carolina Division of Air Quality.

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Disclaimer: The Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection posts this information using the first available data from our air quality monitoring network. No quality control review has been performed on this data, and the final results are subject to change after completion of standard quality assurance review and validation procedures.

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Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection
Fifth Floor
Forsyth County Government Center
201 North Chestnut Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
Phone: 336 703 2440 Fax: 336 727 2777