Indiana air quality

Brazil, Indiana Air Quality

Clay County39.524, -87.125

The nearest monitor to Brazil, at Sandcut - E Rio Grande, 11 miles away, measured an index of 26 at Mon, 2:00 PM EDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Indiana Dept. of Environmental Management 2 forecasts Good for Terre Haute today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
26 · 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 Brazil, 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 Brazil, 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 Brazil right now. All Indiana warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Sandcut - E Rio Grande, 11 miles away (site 840181670026)
Index measured
26 · Good
Measured at
Mon, 2:00 PM EDT
Ozone
27 ppb
Reporting area
Terre Haute, IN, 15 miles away
Reported by
Indiana Dept. of Environmental Management 2
Area index
26 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Indiana Dept. of Environmental Management 2's own forecast for Terre Haute, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGoodPM2.5
TomorrowGoodPM2.5
Wednesday, September 23GoodPM2.5

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Indiana Dept. of Environmental Management 2 for Terre Haute and filed with AirNow.

Central Regions: Ozone was Good over the past forecast period, while PM2.5 was a mixture of Good/Moderate. (Past Friday through Sunday.) As of 12Z this morning, on the radar is a widespread area of showers and isolated thunderstorms mainly around I-70 and south of I-70. This large body of precipitation is moving slowly east southeast. Meanwhile, a stationary boundary is lingering to the south of Indiana, over Kentucky this morning and will remain today, before finally dropping south of Kentucky by this evening. Rain will eventually diminish throughout the day as the boundary drops farther south and conditions will become mostly cloudy. Highs this afternoon will have quite the gradient ranging from the mid 60's (north) to around 80 (southern counties) of central Indiana. Dew points will be in the lower 60's. Winds will be northeast at 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. A weak wave moves across the area on Tuesday and could mean some isolated showers and thunderstorms. Seasonable temperatures will continue into tomorrow (Tuesday) and actually through the rest of the work week! Look for highs on Tuesday afternoon in the upper 60's (north) to mid-70's (south) with mostly cloudy skies. Dew points will be in the upper 50's. Winds will be northeast at 10 mph with gusts to 20 mph. Similar high temperatures and dew points are in store for Wednesday. Winds will continue to be from the northeast at 10 mph. As for guidance this forecast period, the Canadian is predicting Ozone to be Good through Wednesday. The 06Z BC NOAA model is also predicting Good ozone through Wednesday, which both models make sense as the area is getting a decent rain today, which may help clean out the area. Then the winds remain out of the northeast through the period at or above 10 mph, and it's hard to get Ozone growth this these kind of winds. Will therefore go with Good for ozone for the entire period for both sites, Terre Haute and Indianapolis. As for PM2.5, the NOAA model is also predicting Good through Wednesday, which makes sense for the above reasoning for Ozone. Will as a result go with Good for the entire period for both sites for PM2.5 as well.

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 34, Good, around Tue, 5:00 PM EDT, from the run issued Mon, 8:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Mon, 10:00 AM EDT16Good3.1
Mon, 11:00 AM EDT23Good5.1
Mon, 12:00 PM EDT27Good5.4
Mon, 1:00 PM EDT24Good4.2
Mon, 2:00 PM EDT23Good4
Mon, 3:00 PM EDT24Good4.6
Mon, 4:00 PM EDT24Good4.218.6
Mon, 5:00 PM EDT21Good3.319.4
Mon, 6:00 PM EDT18Good2.919.8
Mon, 7:00 PM EDT19Good1.420
Mon, 8:00 PM EDT18Good2.419.9
Mon, 9:00 PM EDT18Good2.620
Mon, 10:00 PM EDT19Good2.920.4
Mon, 11:00 PM EDT19Good2.820.7
Tue, 12:00 AM EDT19Good2.920.9
Tue, 1:00 AM EDT22Good521.1
Tue, 2:00 AM EDT25Good5.221.4
Tue, 3:00 AM EDT26Good4.921.6
Tue, 4:00 AM EDT25Good4.321.6
Tue, 5:00 AM EDT19Good2.220.8
Tue, 6:00 AM EDT18Good1.419.6
Tue, 7:00 AM EDT17Good0.918.6
Tue, 8:00 AM EDT16Good0.917.7
Tue, 9:00 AM EDT15Good0.917
Tue, 10:00 AM EDT15Good1.316.3
Tue, 11:00 AM EDT16Good4.716.2
Tue, 12:00 PM EDT24Good5.717.1
Tue, 1:00 PM EDT23Good4.119.1
Tue, 2:00 PM EDT27Good5.721.4
Tue, 3:00 PM EDT30Good623.7
Tue, 4:00 PM EDT33Good6.525.9
Tue, 5:00 PM EDT34Good6.327.9
Tue, 6:00 PM EDT32Good5.529.9
Tue, 7:00 PM EDT29Good3.831.2
Tue, 8:00 PM EDT29Good4.531.5
Tue, 9:00 PM EDT29Good531
Tue, 10:00 PM EDT28Good4.230.5
Tue, 11:00 PM EDT27Good3.429.8
Wed, 12:00 AM EDT27Good329.1
Wed, 1:00 AM EDT25Good3.628
Wed, 2:00 AM EDT24Good4.727
Wed, 3:00 AM EDT24Good426.1
Wed, 4:00 AM EDT23Good4.325.4
Wed, 5:00 AM EDT22Good3.824.3
Wed, 6:00 AM EDT20Good2.122.9
Wed, 7:00 AM EDT19Good1.921.2
Wed, 8:00 AM EDT18Good1.619.6
Wed, 9:00 AM EDT16Good1.318
Wed, 10:00 AM EDT15Good2.616.5
Wed, 11:00 AM EDT21Good5.615.5
Wed, 12:00 PM EDT29Good6.715.4
Wed, 1:00 PM EDT25Good3.915.9
Wed, 2:00 PM EDT28Good5.516.7
Wed, 3:00 PM EDT28Good5.317.8
Wed, 4:00 PM EDT32Good6.519
Wed, 5:00 PM EDT33Good6.320.5
Wed, 6:00 PM EDT34Good6.222.3
Wed, 7:00 PM EDT31Good5.123.9
Wed, 8:00 PM EDT31Good5.624.8
Wed, 9:00 PM EDT28Good4.625.3
Wed, 10:00 PM EDT29Good5.425.7
Wed, 11:00 PM EDT30Good5.725.6
Thu, 12:00 AM EDT25Good3.625.2
Thu, 1:00 AM EDT25Good4.624.3
Thu, 2:00 AM EDT24Good4.423
Thu, 3:00 AM EDT22Good3.621.4
Thu, 4:00 AM EDT18Good1.520
Thu, 5:00 AM EDT17Good1.318.8
Thu, 6:00 AM EDT16Good1.117.8
Thu, 7:00 AM EDT15Good0.716.8
Thu, 8:00 AM EDT15Good0.916.3

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 Brazil in satellite imagery today.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 1 µg/m³ around Sun, 11:00 PM EDT.

Smoke on the radar over Brazil

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.