Louisiana air quality

Springhill, Louisiana Air Quality

Webster Parish33.006, -93.467

The nearest monitor to Springhill, at Dixie, 32 miles away, measured an index of 26 at Wed, 1:00 AM CDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality forecasts Moderate for Shreveport today and Moderate tomorrow. NOAA’s analysts drew medium wildfire smoke over the town today.

Measured now
26 · Good
Today
56 · Moderate
Tomorrow
56 · Moderate
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

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

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Dixie, 32 miles away (site 220170001)
Index measured
26 · Good
Measured at
Wed, 1:00 AM CDT
Ozone
39 ppb
Reporting area
Shreveport, LA, 36 miles away
Reported by
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
Area index
58 · Moderate

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 Shreveport, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayModerate56PM2.5
TomorrowModerate56PM2.5

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for Shreveport and filed with AirNow.

Tuesday, widely scattered showers and thunderstorms will aid atmospheric mixing during the afternoon and evening. However, periods of sun and highs in the mid- to upper-90s will continue to promote ozone formation. Additionally, light northeasterly winds will allow thin smoke to linger over the region. These conditions will yield high-Good to mid-Moderate AQI levels. Wednesday and Thursday, as a weak front departs to the south, increasing northeasterly winds will aid dispersion. However, these winds will also transport thin regional smoke into the state, keeping particle levels elevated. Furthermore, increasing sunshine and temperatures in the low- to mid-90s will be conducive to ozone development. Thus, AQI levels will range from high-Good to mid-Moderate on both days.

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 65, Moderate, around Wed, 11:00 AM CDT, from the run issued Tue, 10:00 PM CDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Tue, 9:00 AM CDT46Good8.4
Tue, 10:00 AM CDT53Moderate12.8
Tue, 11:00 AM CDT54Moderate11.7
Tue, 12:00 PM CDT52Moderate8.4
Tue, 1:00 PM CDT51Moderate8.3
Tue, 2:00 PM CDT48Good7.7
Tue, 3:00 PM CDT47Good8.135.5
Tue, 4:00 PM CDT45Good7.740.9
Tue, 5:00 PM CDT48Good9.646.1
Tue, 6:00 PM CDT51Moderate9.849.7
Tue, 7:00 PM CDT52Moderate10.151.3
Tue, 8:00 PM CDT52Moderate1050.7
Tue, 9:00 PM CDT53Moderate10.549.3
Tue, 10:00 PM CDT53Moderate10.447.8
Tue, 11:00 PM CDT53Moderate10.646.4
Wed, 12:00 AM CDT52Moderate9.544.2
Wed, 1:00 AM CDT52Moderate10.140.9
Wed, 2:00 AM CDT54Moderate11.737.4
Wed, 3:00 AM CDT54Moderate10.334.1
Wed, 4:00 AM CDT55Moderate12.932.1
Wed, 5:00 AM CDT56Moderate13.830.6
Wed, 6:00 AM CDT58Moderate14.228.8
Wed, 7:00 AM CDT59Moderate14.626.7
Wed, 8:00 AM CDT59Moderate13.524.7
Wed, 9:00 AM CDT59Moderate13.623.9
Wed, 10:00 AM CDT63Moderate17.924.9
Wed, 11:00 AM CDT65Moderate17.527.1
Wed, 12:00 PM CDT63Moderate14.930
Wed, 1:00 PM CDT62Moderate13.833.2
Wed, 2:00 PM CDT60Moderate1336.8
Wed, 3:00 PM CDT58Moderate10.840.3
Wed, 4:00 PM CDT53Moderate8.344.1
Wed, 5:00 PM CDT52Moderate9.347.5
Wed, 6:00 PM CDT52Moderate9.449.8
Wed, 7:00 PM CDT52Moderate10.250.5
Wed, 8:00 PM CDT52Moderate9.849.4
Wed, 9:00 PM CDT51Moderate8.847.5
Wed, 10:00 PM CDT50Good8.845.6
Wed, 11:00 PM CDT47Good7.943.6
Thu, 12:00 AM CDT47Good8.341.4
Thu, 1:00 AM CDT51Moderate10.338.8
Thu, 2:00 AM CDT55Moderate13.936
Thu, 3:00 AM CDT56Moderate12.733.2
Thu, 4:00 AM CDT58Moderate13.731.4
Thu, 5:00 AM CDT60Moderate14.829.8
Thu, 6:00 AM CDT60Moderate14.227.9
Thu, 7:00 AM CDT62Moderate16.426.3
Thu, 8:00 AM CDT63Moderate15.724.6
Thu, 9:00 AM CDT62Moderate14.823.5
Thu, 10:00 AM CDT65Moderate18.423.6
Thu, 11:00 AM CDT65Moderate16.325.3
Thu, 12:00 PM CDT63Moderate13.928
Thu, 1:00 PM CDT61Moderate1331.2
Thu, 2:00 PM CDT58Moderate10.634.8
Thu, 3:00 PM CDT55Moderate9.638.3
Thu, 4:00 PM CDT51Moderate7.742.1
Thu, 5:00 PM CDT51Moderate9.345.9
Thu, 6:00 PM CDT52Moderate1048.7
Thu, 7:00 PM CDT52Moderate9.549.9
Thu, 8:00 PM CDT53Moderate1149
Thu, 9:00 PM CDT52Moderate9.347.4
Thu, 10:00 PM CDT54Moderate11.345.3
Thu, 11:00 PM CDT53Moderate10.443
Fri, 12:00 AM CDT54Moderate11.140.5
Fri, 1:00 AM CDT55Moderate12.437.2
Fri, 2:00 AM CDT58Moderate14.333.5
Fri, 3:00 AM CDT58Moderate12.929.8
Fri, 4:00 AM CDT58Moderate1427.4
Fri, 5:00 AM CDT60Moderate15.325.6
Fri, 6:00 AM CDT60Moderate1423.9
Fri, 7:00 AM CDT61Moderate14.822.1

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 Springhill in satellite imagery today (Tue, 3:00 PM CDT to Tue, 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 1.8 µg/m³ around Wed, 9:00 PM CDT.

Smoke on the radar over Springhill

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.