Maryland air quality

Centreville, Maryland Air Quality

Queen Anne's County39.042, -76.066

The nearest monitor to Centreville, at Millington, 23 miles away, measured an index of 23 at Tue, 12:00 AM EDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Maryland Department of the Environment forecasts Good for Upper Eastern Shore today and Good tomorrow. NOAA’s analysts drew medium wildfire smoke over the town today.

Measured now
23 · Good
Today
17 · Good
Tomorrow
17 · Good
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

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

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

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Millington, 23 miles away (site 240290002)
Index measured
23 · Good
Measured at
Tue, 12:00 AM EDT
Fine particles
2 µg/m³
Ozone
28 ppb
Reporting area
Upper Eastern Shore, MD, 8 miles away
Reported by
Maryland Department of the Environment
Area index
23 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Maryland Department of the Environment's own forecast for Upper Eastern Shore, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood17PM2.5
TomorrowGood17PM2.5
Thursday, September 24Good17PM2.5

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Maryland Department of the Environment for Upper Eastern Shore and filed with AirNow.

Pristine air quality conditions are expected for the next few days as strong northeasterly winds tap into clean maritime air, with periods of unsettled weather further scouring pollutants. Good AQI is expected through at least Thursday. For the latest air quality information, please visit our website here. -MDE

Hour by hour

NOAA’s air quality model could not be read for this point just now. It runs twice a day and covers the lower 48, Alaska and Hawaii.

Smoke

NOAA’s Hazard Mapping System analysts drew medium smoke over Centreville in satellite imagery today (Mon, 11:00 AM EDT to Mon, 1:00 PM EDT). That is smoke seen from above; it is not always smoke at ground level.

NOAA’s model forecasts no measurable smoke near the ground here over the next two days.

Smoke on the radar over Centreville

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.