Air Quality

AQI Forecast

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Daily AQI Table

Pollutant09/19/2509/20/2509/21/2509/22/2509/23/25
Ozone10071514854
PM2.55658555351

Synopsis and Discussion

Air quality remains Moderate for the first half of the weekend as a backdoor cold front approaches the area. This moisture starved boundary will not impact the sensible weather or ambient air quality very much with quite a lot of sunshine and highs in the 80s continuing through Tuesday. Particle pollution is expected to continue hovering in the Code Yellow range for the balance of the forecast period. Following yesterday’s upper Code Yellow ozone concentrations, lower weekend emissions are helping to keep readings a bit lower today despite the stagnate air mass and averages will only approach the mid Code Yellow range at best today. Lower Code Yellow concentrations are anticipated tomorrow and with the potential for some afternoon clouds on Monday and Tuesday that might limit ozone production, readings are expected to remain near the Code Green/Yellow threshold. (Greg Perrotte / perrotgt@forsyth.cc)

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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.

Reports

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