Indiana air quality

Advance, Indiana Air Quality

Boone County39.996, -86.620

The nearest monitor to Advance, at Whitestown, 12 miles away, measured an index of 31 at Fri, 1:00 PM EDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Indianapolis Office of Sustainability forecasts Good for Indianapolis today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
31 · Good
Today
— · Good
Tomorrow
— · Good
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

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

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Advance, Indiana 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 Advance right now. All Indiana warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Whitestown, 12 miles away (site 180110001)
Index measured
31 · Good
Measured at
Fri, 1:00 PM EDT
Ozone
44 ppb
Reporting area
Indianapolis, IN, 29 miles away
Reported by
Indianapolis Office of Sustainability
Area index
29 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Indianapolis Office of Sustainability's own forecast for Indianapolis, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGoodPM2.5
TomorrowGoodPM2.5
Sunday, September 27ModeratePM2.5
Monday, September 28ModeratePM2.5

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Indianapolis Office of Sustainability for Indianapolis and filed with AirNow.

Central Regions: Ozone and PM2.5 were both Good the past two days. As of 12Z this morning, surface high pressure is centered over the Great Lakes region, where it will remain for the weekend and into early next week. A wonderful forecast is in store for this period (today through Monday) with highs basically in the lower to mid-70's (except for today it will be a tad cooler in the upper 60's to low 70's.) Dew points will be in the mid to upper 40's today/tomorrow and then around 50 for Sunday/Monday. Skies will be partly sunny for today, and then sunny the rest of the period. Winds will generally be northeast at 5 to 10 mph today, 5 mph tomorrow and Sunday, and then either calm winds or a very light northeast wind on Monday. Mixing heights will be around 3300 ft today/tomorrow, and then 4400 ft Sunday/Monday. In terms of guidance, for Ozone the Canadian is predicting generally Good through Sunday. The 06Z BC NOAA model is predicting Good through Sunday as well. See no reason to stray from guidance so will be going with Good for Ozone through Monday. As for PM2.5, the NOAA model is generally Good through Sunday, except it does pick up on a Moderate in Indianapolis for Sunday. The winds will be getting much lighter by this time under a few days of sunny skies. So will start off the forecast with Good, then transition to Moderate for Sun/Mon for both sites to be conservative.

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 48, Good, around Sun, 2:00 AM EDT, from the run issued Fri, 8:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Fri, 2:00 PM EDT28Good5
Fri, 3:00 PM EDT29Good5.3
Fri, 4:00 PM EDT28Good5.123.2
Fri, 5:00 PM EDT28Good4.924.7
Fri, 6:00 PM EDT26Good4.126.3
Fri, 7:00 PM EDT25Good3.627.4
Fri, 8:00 PM EDT25Good2.827.9
Fri, 9:00 PM EDT25Good227.7
Fri, 10:00 PM EDT24Good3.626.9
Fri, 11:00 PM EDT23Good3.725.7
Sat, 12:00 AM EDT22Good3.624.9
Sat, 1:00 AM EDT22Good3.224
Sat, 2:00 AM EDT20Good3.522.7
Sat, 3:00 AM EDT21Good4.121.3
Sat, 4:00 AM EDT20Good3.420
Sat, 5:00 AM EDT17Good2.718.7
Sat, 6:00 AM EDT17Good3.117.5
Sat, 7:00 AM EDT20Good4.116.7
Sat, 8:00 AM EDT23Good4.815.8
Sat, 9:00 AM EDT23Good4.615
Sat, 10:00 AM EDT27Good5.315.1
Sat, 11:00 AM EDT31Good6.316
Sat, 12:00 PM EDT38Good8.217.7
Sat, 1:00 PM EDT44Good920.1
Sat, 2:00 PM EDT46Good8.623.2
Sat, 3:00 PM EDT46Good8.226.3
Sat, 4:00 PM EDT44Good7.629.3
Sat, 5:00 PM EDT42Good7.231.9
Sat, 6:00 PM EDT40Good6.933.6
Sat, 7:00 PM EDT41Good7.634.2
Sat, 8:00 PM EDT41Good7.433.7
Sat, 9:00 PM EDT39Good6.632.8
Sat, 10:00 PM EDT42Good8.331.4
Sat, 11:00 PM EDT43Good8.129.7
Sun, 12:00 AM EDT44Good8.427.9
Sun, 1:00 AM EDT47Good9.526.2
Sun, 2:00 AM EDT48Good9.324.8
Sun, 3:00 AM EDT47Good8.323.6
Sun, 4:00 AM EDT46Good7.622.8
Sun, 5:00 AM EDT44Good7.421.8
Sun, 6:00 AM EDT43Good7.220.4
Sun, 7:00 AM EDT34Good519.2
Sun, 8:00 AM EDT34Good6.117.8
Sun, 9:00 AM EDT32Good5.316.7
Sun, 10:00 AM EDT33Good6.316.4
Sun, 11:00 AM EDT36Good717.2
Sun, 12:00 PM EDT39Good7.918.3
Sun, 1:00 PM EDT44Good9.120
Sun, 2:00 PM EDT46Good8.622.2
Sun, 3:00 PM EDT46Good8.224.4
Sun, 4:00 PM EDT46Good8.226.7
Sun, 5:00 PM EDT43Good7.429.1
Sun, 6:00 PM EDT40Good6.531.1
Sun, 7:00 PM EDT39Good6.831.9
Sun, 8:00 PM EDT37Good6.431.8
Sun, 9:00 PM EDT36Good5.930.2
Sun, 10:00 PM EDT37Good7.229
Sun, 11:00 PM EDT38Good7.227.6
Mon, 12:00 AM EDT39Good7.425.9
Mon, 1:00 AM EDT41Good823.9
Mon, 2:00 AM EDT42Good8.221.5
Mon, 3:00 AM EDT43Good8.219.5
Mon, 4:00 AM EDT43Good818.3
Mon, 5:00 AM EDT42Good7.217.9
Mon, 6:00 AM EDT42Good7.117.1
Mon, 7:00 AM EDT39Good6.216.1
Mon, 8:00 AM EDT38Good6.415.3

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 Advance 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 Advance

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.

Weather forecast for AdvanceWarnings in Boone CountyLive radar over AdvanceIndiana air quality

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.