Arkansas air quality

Hamburg, Arkansas Air Quality

Ashley County33.228, -91.798

The nearest reporting area, Monroe, measured an index of 42 this hour, which is Good. Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality forecasts Moderate for Monroe today and Moderate tomorrow. NOAA’s analysts drew medium wildfire smoke over the town today.

Measured now
42 · Good
Today
64 · Moderate
Tomorrow
62 · Moderate
Pollutant
PM2.5

Fine particles on the map

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Hamburg, Arkansas. Open it for the live map, where it pans and zooms.

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Hamburg, Arkansas Open the live map with the particulate forecast

Map layer from NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.

Alerts in force

An Air Quality Alert is issued by the National Weather Service on behalf of a state or local agency when pollution is expected to reach a level that harms health. An Air Stagnation Advisory means the air will not move enough to clear what is already in it.

None are in force near Hamburg right now. All Arkansas warnings.

Now

Good

Reporting area
Monroe, LA, 52 miles away
Reported by
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
Area index
42 · Good

Measured, not modeled. AirNow observations are preliminary until the operating agency certifies them, which happens months later.

Today and tomorrow

Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's own forecast for Monroe, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayModerate64PM2.5
TomorrowModerate62PM2.5

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for Monroe and filed with AirNow.

Saturday, light southeasterly to southerly winds will hinder dispersion and allow regional thin smoke and other pollutants to linger over Louisiana. Furthermore, sunny and hot conditions will continue to promote ozone formation. Therefore, AQI levels will be low- to mid-Moderate in most locations, with high-Moderate AQI levels expected in Baton Rouge. Sunday and Monday, as surface high pressure settles over the Bayou State, light and variable winds will inhibit dispersion, allowing pollutants to remain over the state. In addition, mostly sunny and hot conditions will be conducive for ozone production each afternoon. Thus, AQI levels will be low- to mid-Moderate in most cities on both days.

Hour by hour

NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability, bias-corrected against monitors, for this town’s own coordinate. The worst hour ahead is an index of 82, Moderate, around Mon, 2:00 AM CDT, from the run issued Sun, 7:00 AM CDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Sun, 9:00 AM CDT54Moderate10.8
Sun, 10:00 AM CDT54Moderate10.5
Sun, 11:00 AM CDT53Moderate9.5
Sun, 12:00 PM CDT53Moderate9.7
Sun, 1:00 PM CDT53Moderate9.6
Sun, 2:00 PM CDT52Moderate8.6
Sun, 3:00 PM CDT51Moderate8.139.8
Sun, 4:00 PM CDT49Good8.444.6
Sun, 5:00 PM CDT48Good8.348.5
Sun, 6:00 PM CDT47Good850.7
Sun, 7:00 PM CDT47Good7.951.5
Sun, 8:00 PM CDT47Good7.651.3
Sun, 9:00 PM CDT46Good7.950.1
Sun, 10:00 PM CDT47Good10.148.7
Sun, 11:00 PM CDT55Moderate14.446.7
Mon, 12:00 AM CDT63Moderate2044
Mon, 1:00 AM CDT74Moderate26.940.5
Mon, 2:00 AM CDT82Moderate30.236.2
Mon, 3:00 AM CDT80Moderate23.431.8
Mon, 4:00 AM CDT71Moderate15.227.9
Mon, 5:00 AM CDT65Moderate12.924.6
Mon, 6:00 AM CDT60Moderate11.821.1
Mon, 7:00 AM CDT57Moderate10.218.1
Mon, 8:00 AM CDT54Moderate9.215.6
Mon, 9:00 AM CDT52Moderate8.214.2
Mon, 10:00 AM CDT44Good6.515.4
Mon, 11:00 AM CDT38Good5.818
Mon, 12:00 PM CDT34Good5.521.1
Mon, 1:00 PM CDT34Good6.124.6
Mon, 2:00 PM CDT36Good6.828.6
Mon, 3:00 PM CDT36Good6.532.9
Mon, 4:00 PM CDT36Good6.637.3
Mon, 5:00 PM CDT37Good6.641
Mon, 6:00 PM CDT39Good5.642.9
Mon, 7:00 PM CDT40Good5.243.5
Mon, 8:00 PM CDT40Good4.843.1
Mon, 9:00 PM CDT38Good541.7
Mon, 10:00 PM CDT36Good6.239.7
Mon, 11:00 PM CDT33Good737
Tue, 12:00 AM CDT36Good7.234.1
Tue, 1:00 AM CDT38Good7.731.7
Tue, 2:00 AM CDT41Good8.129.7
Tue, 3:00 AM CDT42Good7.827.9
Tue, 4:00 AM CDT44Good8.426.7
Tue, 5:00 AM CDT47Good9.225.9
Tue, 6:00 AM CDT52Moderate10.725.1
Tue, 7:00 AM CDT53Moderate11.224.4
Tue, 8:00 AM CDT51Moderate8.224
Tue, 9:00 AM CDT44Good6.224
Tue, 10:00 AM CDT45Good8.524.6
Tue, 11:00 AM CDT51Moderate10.226.3
Tue, 12:00 PM CDT52Moderate10.528.8
Tue, 1:00 PM CDT53Moderate10.531.9
Tue, 2:00 PM CDT53Moderate10.135.7
Tue, 3:00 PM CDT52Moderate9.440.1
Tue, 4:00 PM CDT52Moderate9.644.4
Tue, 5:00 PM CDT52Moderate9.348.1
Tue, 6:00 PM CDT52Moderate9.451.4
Tue, 7:00 PM CDT52Moderate10.254
Tue, 8:00 PM CDT55Moderate12.555.7
Tue, 9:00 PM CDT60Moderate16.556.3
Tue, 10:00 PM CDT63Moderate17.955.3
Tue, 11:00 PM CDT63Moderate15.353.7
Wed, 12:00 AM CDT62Moderate14.352
Wed, 1:00 AM CDT62Moderate15.149.7
Wed, 2:00 AM CDT62Moderate14.646.3
Wed, 3:00 AM CDT60Moderate12.942.6
Wed, 4:00 AM CDT58Moderate1238.8
Wed, 5:00 AM CDT58Moderate12.335.3
Wed, 6:00 AM CDT58Moderate13.232.6
Wed, 7:00 AM CDT59Moderate13.730.4

Fine particles in micrograms per cubic meter, ozone in parts per billion as an 8-hour average. The index for each hour is EPA’s: the ozone figure is already the 8-hour average the ozone index is defined on, and the particle figure is run through EPA’s NowCast, which is how an hourly PM2.5 concentration becomes an index.

Smoke

NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System analysts drew medium smoke over Hamburg in satellite imagery today (Sun, 7:00 AM CDT to Sun, 10:00 AM CDT). That is smoke seen from above; it is not always smoke at ground level.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 3.4 µg/m³ around Sun, 1:00 AM CDT.

Smoke on the radar over Hamburg

What this means

Good

Air quality is satisfactory, and air pollution poses little or no risk.

Who is affected
Nobody is expected to be affected.
What to do
It is a good day to be outside.
Index range
0 to 50

Category descriptions are the Environmental Protection Agency’s own.

What these numbers are. An index beside a monitor’s name is a measurement, published hourly by AirNow and preliminary until the operating agency certifies it. A category for today or tomorrow is a state or local agency forecaster’s own forecast for a reporting area. An hourly index is NOAA’s air quality model on a five-kilometer grid, not a reading from any instrument. Where a town has no monitor within reach, only the model figures appear, and the page says so.

Nearby

The nearest towns with a page of their own, closest first.

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Sources

Observations and daily forecasts from AirNow, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s program with NOAA, the National Park Service, NASA, tribal, state and local agencies. Hourly forecasts from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability. Smoke analysis from NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System. Alerts from the National Weather Service. Index categories and breakpoints are EPA’s, as revised in 2024.