Advance, Indiana Air Quality
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.























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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.
| Day | Category | Index | Pollutant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | Good | PM2.5 | |
| Tomorrow | Good | PM2.5 | |
| Sunday, September 27 | Moderate | PM2.5 | |
| Monday, September 28 | Moderate | PM2.5 |
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.
| Hour | Index | Category | PM2.5 | Ozone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, 2:00 PM EDT | 28 | Good | 5 | |
| Fri, 3:00 PM EDT | 29 | Good | 5.3 | |
| Fri, 4:00 PM EDT | 28 | Good | 5.1 | 23.2 |
| Fri, 5:00 PM EDT | 28 | Good | 4.9 | 24.7 |
| Fri, 6:00 PM EDT | 26 | Good | 4.1 | 26.3 |
| Fri, 7:00 PM EDT | 25 | Good | 3.6 | 27.4 |
| Fri, 8:00 PM EDT | 25 | Good | 2.8 | 27.9 |
| Fri, 9:00 PM EDT | 25 | Good | 2 | 27.7 |
| Fri, 10:00 PM EDT | 24 | Good | 3.6 | 26.9 |
| Fri, 11:00 PM EDT | 23 | Good | 3.7 | 25.7 |
| Sat, 12:00 AM EDT | 22 | Good | 3.6 | 24.9 |
| Sat, 1:00 AM EDT | 22 | Good | 3.2 | 24 |
| Sat, 2:00 AM EDT | 20 | Good | 3.5 | 22.7 |
| Sat, 3:00 AM EDT | 21 | Good | 4.1 | 21.3 |
| Sat, 4:00 AM EDT | 20 | Good | 3.4 | 20 |
| Sat, 5:00 AM EDT | 17 | Good | 2.7 | 18.7 |
| Sat, 6:00 AM EDT | 17 | Good | 3.1 | 17.5 |
| Sat, 7:00 AM EDT | 20 | Good | 4.1 | 16.7 |
| Sat, 8:00 AM EDT | 23 | Good | 4.8 | 15.8 |
| Sat, 9:00 AM EDT | 23 | Good | 4.6 | 15 |
| Sat, 10:00 AM EDT | 27 | Good | 5.3 | 15.1 |
| Sat, 11:00 AM EDT | 31 | Good | 6.3 | 16 |
| Sat, 12:00 PM EDT | 38 | Good | 8.2 | 17.7 |
| Sat, 1:00 PM EDT | 44 | Good | 9 | 20.1 |
| Sat, 2:00 PM EDT | 46 | Good | 8.6 | 23.2 |
| Sat, 3:00 PM EDT | 46 | Good | 8.2 | 26.3 |
| Sat, 4:00 PM EDT | 44 | Good | 7.6 | 29.3 |
| Sat, 5:00 PM EDT | 42 | Good | 7.2 | 31.9 |
| Sat, 6:00 PM EDT | 40 | Good | 6.9 | 33.6 |
| Sat, 7:00 PM EDT | 41 | Good | 7.6 | 34.2 |
| Sat, 8:00 PM EDT | 41 | Good | 7.4 | 33.7 |
| Sat, 9:00 PM EDT | 39 | Good | 6.6 | 32.8 |
| Sat, 10:00 PM EDT | 42 | Good | 8.3 | 31.4 |
| Sat, 11:00 PM EDT | 43 | Good | 8.1 | 29.7 |
| Sun, 12:00 AM EDT | 44 | Good | 8.4 | 27.9 |
| Sun, 1:00 AM EDT | 47 | Good | 9.5 | 26.2 |
| Sun, 2:00 AM EDT | 48 | Good | 9.3 | 24.8 |
| Sun, 3:00 AM EDT | 47 | Good | 8.3 | 23.6 |
| Sun, 4:00 AM EDT | 46 | Good | 7.6 | 22.8 |
| Sun, 5:00 AM EDT | 44 | Good | 7.4 | 21.8 |
| Sun, 6:00 AM EDT | 43 | Good | 7.2 | 20.4 |
| Sun, 7:00 AM EDT | 34 | Good | 5 | 19.2 |
| Sun, 8:00 AM EDT | 34 | Good | 6.1 | 17.8 |
| Sun, 9:00 AM EDT | 32 | Good | 5.3 | 16.7 |
| Sun, 10:00 AM EDT | 33 | Good | 6.3 | 16.4 |
| Sun, 11:00 AM EDT | 36 | Good | 7 | 17.2 |
| Sun, 12:00 PM EDT | 39 | Good | 7.9 | 18.3 |
| Sun, 1:00 PM EDT | 44 | Good | 9.1 | 20 |
| Sun, 2:00 PM EDT | 46 | Good | 8.6 | 22.2 |
| Sun, 3:00 PM EDT | 46 | Good | 8.2 | 24.4 |
| Sun, 4:00 PM EDT | 46 | Good | 8.2 | 26.7 |
| Sun, 5:00 PM EDT | 43 | Good | 7.4 | 29.1 |
| Sun, 6:00 PM EDT | 40 | Good | 6.5 | 31.1 |
| Sun, 7:00 PM EDT | 39 | Good | 6.8 | 31.9 |
| Sun, 8:00 PM EDT | 37 | Good | 6.4 | 31.8 |
| Sun, 9:00 PM EDT | 36 | Good | 5.9 | 30.2 |
| Sun, 10:00 PM EDT | 37 | Good | 7.2 | 29 |
| Sun, 11:00 PM EDT | 38 | Good | 7.2 | 27.6 |
| Mon, 12:00 AM EDT | 39 | Good | 7.4 | 25.9 |
| Mon, 1:00 AM EDT | 41 | Good | 8 | 23.9 |
| Mon, 2:00 AM EDT | 42 | Good | 8.2 | 21.5 |
| Mon, 3:00 AM EDT | 43 | Good | 8.2 | 19.5 |
| Mon, 4:00 AM EDT | 43 | Good | 8 | 18.3 |
| Mon, 5:00 AM EDT | 42 | Good | 7.2 | 17.9 |
| Mon, 6:00 AM EDT | 42 | Good | 7.1 | 17.1 |
| Mon, 7:00 AM EDT | 39 | Good | 6.2 | 16.1 |
| Mon, 8:00 AM EDT | 38 | Good | 6.4 | 15.3 |
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.
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.