Nora Springs, Iowa Air Quality

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 Nora Springs right now. All Iowa warnings.

Good

Nearest monitor

Waverly, Airport, 37 miles away (site 190170011)

Index measured

20 · Good

Measured at

Wed, 10:00 PM CDT

Ozone

21 ppb

Reporting area

Waterloo, IA, 54 miles away

Reported by

Iowa DNR

Area index

25 · Good

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

Iowa DNR's own forecast for Waterloo, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

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 52, Moderate, around Sat, 4:00 AM CDT, from the run issued Wed, 10:00 PM CDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

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.

NOAA’s analysts have not drawn smoke over Nora Springs 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 Nora Springs

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.

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

• Mason City, IA10 miles
• Osage, IA14 miles
• Manly, IA14 miles
• Rockwell, IA14 miles
• Saint Ansgar, IA17 miles
• Charles City, IA18 miles
• Clear Lake, IA19 miles
• Greene, IA20 miles

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.