Florida air quality

Lake Worth Beach, Florida Air Quality

Palm Beach County26.617, -80.072

The nearest monitor to Lake Worth Beach, at Lamstein Lane, 10 miles away, measured an index of 17 at Sun, 6:00 AM EDT, which is Good for fine particles (PM2.5). Palm Beach County Health Department Division of Environmental Science and Engineering forecasts Good for West Palm Beach today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
17 · Good
Today
— · Good
Tomorrow
— · Good
Pollutant
PM2.5

Radar

Reflectivity now over Lake Worth Beach, Florida. Open it to see the particulate forecast on the map.

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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and 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 Lake Worth Beach right now. All Florida warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Lamstein Lane, 10 miles away (site 840120990022)
Index measured
17 · Good
Measured at
Sun, 6:00 AM EDT
Fine particles
3.1 µg/m³
Ozone
8 ppb
Reporting area
West Palm Beach, FL, 7 miles away
Reported by
Palm Beach County Health Department Division of Environmental Science and Engineering
Area index
17 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Palm Beach County Health Department Division of Environmental Science and Engineering's own forecast for West Palm Beach, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGoodOzone
TomorrowGoodOzone
Tuesday, September 22GoodOzone

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 36, Good, around Mon, 7:00 PM EDT, from the run issued Sun, 2:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Sun, 4:00 AM EDT7Good1.1
Sun, 5:00 AM EDT7Good1.3
Sun, 6:00 AM EDT7Good1.1
Sun, 7:00 AM EDT4Good0.5
Sun, 8:00 AM EDT4Good0.8
Sun, 9:00 AM EDT6Good1.6
Sun, 10:00 AM EDT13Good1.515
Sun, 11:00 AM EDT16Good2.217.1
Sun, 12:00 PM EDT18Good3.619.6
Sun, 1:00 PM EDT20Good3.322.3
Sun, 2:00 PM EDT22Good3.324.6
Sun, 3:00 PM EDT24Good1.926.4
Sun, 4:00 PM EDT26Good1.228.6
Sun, 5:00 PM EDT27Good1.629.9
Sun, 6:00 PM EDT27Good1.729.9
Sun, 7:00 PM EDT27Good1.529.1
Sun, 8:00 PM EDT25Good2.127.7
Sun, 9:00 PM EDT23Good1.125.5
Sun, 10:00 PM EDT21Good1.223.3
Sun, 11:00 PM EDT19Good1.620.8
Mon, 12:00 AM EDT17Good2.318.3
Mon, 1:00 AM EDT15Good316.2
Mon, 2:00 AM EDT16Good3.314.1
Mon, 3:00 AM EDT16Good312.5
Mon, 4:00 AM EDT17Good3.111.4
Mon, 5:00 AM EDT16Good2.910.7
Mon, 6:00 AM EDT17Good3.110.7
Mon, 7:00 AM EDT18Good3.410.9
Mon, 8:00 AM EDT21Good4.410.6
Mon, 9:00 AM EDT24Good5.110.6
Mon, 10:00 AM EDT27Good5.512.2
Mon, 11:00 AM EDT28Good5.314.5
Mon, 12:00 PM EDT29Good5.417
Mon, 1:00 PM EDT33Good6.720.5
Mon, 2:00 PM EDT34Good6.423.7
Mon, 3:00 PM EDT35Good6.627.6
Mon, 4:00 PM EDT32Good532
Mon, 5:00 PM EDT32Good4.435.5
Mon, 6:00 PM EDT34Good4.537.7
Mon, 7:00 PM EDT36Good4.839
Mon, 8:00 PM EDT36Good5.439.8
Mon, 9:00 PM EDT36Good3.939.3
Mon, 10:00 PM EDT35Good4.138.3
Mon, 11:00 PM EDT33Good436.3
Tue, 12:00 AM EDT31Good4.433.7
Tue, 1:00 AM EDT28Good4.530.9
Tue, 2:00 AM EDT25Good4.127.3
Tue, 3:00 AM EDT22Good3.124.3
Tue, 4:00 AM EDT19Good2.621.5
Tue, 5:00 AM EDT17Good1.218.6
Tue, 6:00 AM EDT15Good1.916.6
Tue, 7:00 AM EDT13Good2.614.3
Tue, 8:00 AM EDT13Good2.512.4
Tue, 9:00 AM EDT16Good3.611.7
Tue, 10:00 AM EDT18Good3.713
Tue, 11:00 AM EDT19Good3.614.7
Tue, 12:00 PM EDT17Good2.816.6
Tue, 1:00 PM EDT17Good3.118.8
Tue, 2:00 PM EDT19Good3.320.7
Tue, 3:00 PM EDT21Good3.923.9
Tue, 4:00 PM EDT25Good3.727.1
Tue, 5:00 PM EDT27Good3.229.3
Tue, 6:00 PM EDT28Good3.830.7
Tue, 7:00 PM EDT29Good3.631.2
Tue, 8:00 PM EDT29Good4.231.2
Tue, 9:00 PM EDT28Good2.730.6
Tue, 10:00 PM EDT26Good2.328.6
Tue, 11:00 PM EDT24Good2.726.1
Wed, 12:00 AM EDT21Good2.723.7
Wed, 1:00 AM EDT19Good2.221.1
Wed, 2:00 AM EDT17Good2.418.7

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 analysts have not drawn smoke over Lake Worth Beach in satellite imagery today.

NOAA’s model forecasts no measurable smoke near the ground here over the next two days.

Smoke on the radar over Lake Worth Beach

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.