Louisiana air quality

Livonia, Louisiana Air Quality

Pointe Coupee Parish30.559, -91.556

The nearest monitor to Livonia, at New Roads, 14 miles away, measured an index of 13 at Thu, 3:00 AM CDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality forecasts Good for Baton Rouge Area today and Good tomorrow. NOAA’s analysts drew medium wildfire smoke over the town today.

Measured now
13 · Good
Today
42 · Good
Tomorrow
44 · Good
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

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

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

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
New Roads, 14 miles away (site 220770001)
Index measured
13 · Good
Measured at
Thu, 3:00 AM CDT
Ozone
14 ppb
Reporting area
Baton Rouge Area, LA, 27 miles away
Reported by
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
Area index
19 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality's own forecast for Baton Rouge Area, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood42Ozone
TomorrowGood44Ozone

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for Baton Rouge Area and filed with AirNow.

Wednesday, southeasterly winds will strengthen, aiding pollutant dispersion in the Bayou State. However, partly to mostly sunny skies and warm temperatures will continue to support ozone production. Thus, AQI levels will range from high-Good to mid-Moderate. Thursday, increasing clouds and scattered thunderstorms in southern Louisiana will reduce ozone production. In addition, southeasterly winds will continue to gradually transport cleaner air into the state. Therefore, AQI levels will be Good to low-Moderate. Friday, scattered showers and thunderstorms will promote atmospheric mixing and limit ozone development as moisture continues to increase over Louisiana. Furthermore, easterly to northeasterly winds will aid dispersion, resulting in Good to high-Good AQI levels.

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 62, Moderate, around Fri, 6:00 PM CDT, from the run issued Wed, 10:00 PM CDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Thu, 5:00 AM CDT26Good4.924.3
Thu, 6:00 AM CDT27Good5.221.4
Thu, 7:00 AM CDT28Good5.318.4
Thu, 8:00 AM CDT26Good4.315.5
Thu, 9:00 AM CDT22Good3.214
Thu, 10:00 AM CDT16Good214.1
Thu, 11:00 AM CDT14Good1.915.6
Thu, 12:00 PM CDT16Good2.417.8
Thu, 1:00 PM CDT19Good320.6
Thu, 2:00 PM CDT21Good223.6
Thu, 3:00 PM CDT24Good226.9
Thu, 4:00 PM CDT28Good2.430.5
Thu, 5:00 PM CDT31Good2.833.6
Thu, 6:00 PM CDT32Good1.735.8
Thu, 7:00 PM CDT33Good0.836.7
Thu, 8:00 PM CDT33Good0.636.4
Thu, 9:00 PM CDT32Good1.435.3
Thu, 10:00 PM CDT31Good2.633.9
Thu, 11:00 PM CDT30Good3.232
Fri, 12:00 AM CDT27Good429.8
Fri, 1:00 AM CDT24Good4.226.9
Fri, 2:00 AM CDT23Good4.623.6
Fri, 3:00 AM CDT26Good5.420.4
Fri, 4:00 AM CDT29Good617.5
Fri, 5:00 AM CDT32Good6.314.7
Fri, 6:00 AM CDT37Good7.412.3
Fri, 7:00 AM CDT37Good6.810.1
Fri, 8:00 AM CDT34Good5.58.1
Fri, 9:00 AM CDT30Good4.97.4
Fri, 10:00 AM CDT24Good3.38.2
Fri, 11:00 AM CDT23Good410.6
Fri, 12:00 PM CDT29Good6.414.5
Fri, 1:00 PM CDT39Good8.719.4
Fri, 2:00 PM CDT46Good9.725.2
Fri, 3:00 PM CDT50Good9.731.9
Fri, 4:00 PM CDT54Moderate12.138.8
Fri, 5:00 PM CDT59Moderate16.645.4
Fri, 6:00 PM CDT62Moderate16.450.2
Fri, 7:00 PM CDT58Moderate10.852.5
Fri, 8:00 PM CDT51Moderate5.952.2
Fri, 9:00 PM CDT46Good4.750.4
Fri, 10:00 PM CDT44Good4.747.2
Fri, 11:00 PM CDT39Good4.242.7
Sat, 12:00 AM CDT34Good4.838
Sat, 1:00 AM CDT30Good5.332.6
Sat, 2:00 AM CDT27Good4.827.2
Sat, 3:00 AM CDT29Good5.423.1
Sat, 4:00 AM CDT31Good5.920.5
Sat, 5:00 AM CDT31Good5.818.4
Sat, 6:00 AM CDT36Good7.216.4
Sat, 7:00 AM CDT41Good8.414.2

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 Hazard Mapping System analysts drew medium smoke over Livonia in satellite imagery today (Wed, 3:00 PM CDT to Wed, 6:30 PM CDT). That is smoke seen from above; it is not always smoke at ground level.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 4.5 µg/m³ around Thu, 6:00 PM CDT.

Smoke on the radar over Livonia

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.