Michigan air quality

Oak Park, Michigan Air Quality

Oakland County42.460, -83.183

The nearest monitor to Oak Park, at Oak Park, under a mile away, measured an index of 20 at Sun, 1:00 PM EDT, which is Good for fine particles (PM2.5). Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy forecasts Good for Southeast today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
20 · Good
Today
— · Good
Tomorrow
— · Good
Pollutant
PM2.5

Fine particles on the map

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

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Oak Park, Michigan 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 Oak Park right now. All Michigan warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Oak Park, under a mile away (site 261250001)
Index measured
20 · Good
Measured at
Sun, 1:00 PM EDT
Fine particles
3.6 µg/m³
Ozone
22 ppb
Reporting area
Southeast, MI, 10 miles away
Reported by
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy
Area index
29 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy's own forecast for Southeast, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGoodOzone
TomorrowGoodOzone

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy for Southeast and filed with AirNow.

Friday will likely be our lone dry day, following a mostly cloudy, drizzly work week and what looks to be a fairly wet weekend. The quasi-stationary front, to our south, which was responsible for most of the week’s gloomy weather, has been pushed further south, which will allow us to dry out during Friday. That dry period will be short-lived, however, as low pressure lifts into the Midwest, overnight. This will usher in an area of fairly widespread rain for Saturday. Additional showers are likely Saturday night into Sunday. High pressure builds back into northern Ontario during Sunday providing a shot of dry air that should discourage any lingering showers later in the day. Cool and mostly cloudy conditions should carry over into the early week as the stalled front remains active over the Ohio Valley. As for Air Quality, I expect ozone to remain the Good range, which is enforced by the lower sun angle, shorter days and cooler nights. Fine Particulates should also be mostly Good with a few scattered Moderates. EXTENDED FORECAST: Air Quality is expected to remain mostly Good to begin the upcoming work week.

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 42, Good, around Sun, 9:00 PM EDT, from the run issued Sun, 8:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Sun, 10:00 AM EDT34Good5.4
Sun, 11:00 AM EDT24Good3.4
Sun, 12:00 PM EDT19Good2.6
Sun, 1:00 PM EDT17Good2.6
Sun, 2:00 PM EDT18Good3.5
Sun, 3:00 PM EDT18Good3.4
Sun, 4:00 PM EDT21Good4.213.6
Sun, 5:00 PM EDT24Good5.114.6
Sun, 6:00 PM EDT26Good515.6
Sun, 7:00 PM EDT32Good6.717
Sun, 8:00 PM EDT37Good7.818.4
Sun, 9:00 PM EDT42Good8.520.4
Sun, 10:00 PM EDT37Good5.621.7
Sun, 11:00 PM EDT28Good3.622
Mon, 12:00 AM EDT20Good222.5
Mon, 1:00 AM EDT20Good2.222.6
Mon, 2:00 AM EDT20Good0.322.6
Mon, 3:00 AM EDT20Good0.722.9
Mon, 4:00 AM EDT21Good0.823.4
Mon, 5:00 AM EDT20Good0.822.6
Mon, 6:00 AM EDT20Good0.522.5
Mon, 7:00 AM EDT20Good1.422.2
Mon, 8:00 AM EDT19Good0.521.3
Mon, 9:00 AM EDT19Good0.920.5
Mon, 10:00 AM EDT18Good1.219.6
Mon, 11:00 AM EDT17Good2.618.4
Mon, 12:00 PM EDT19Good5.217.5
Mon, 1:00 PM EDT27Good6.217.3
Mon, 2:00 PM EDT32Good6.817.8
Mon, 3:00 PM EDT34Good6.719.8
Mon, 4:00 PM EDT32Good5.422.3
Mon, 5:00 PM EDT33Good6.124.9
Mon, 6:00 PM EDT31Good5.327.6
Mon, 7:00 PM EDT28Good4.729.6
Mon, 8:00 PM EDT28Good4.630.9
Mon, 9:00 PM EDT29Good5.631.5
Mon, 10:00 PM EDT31Good6.131.1
Mon, 11:00 PM EDT28Good4.130
Tue, 12:00 AM EDT26Good2.128.7
Tue, 1:00 AM EDT24Good1.626.7
Tue, 2:00 AM EDT23Good1.525.3
Tue, 3:00 AM EDT23Good1.125.2
Tue, 4:00 AM EDT23Good1.525.3
Tue, 5:00 AM EDT23Good2.125
Tue, 6:00 AM EDT22Good2.324.8
Tue, 7:00 AM EDT21Good1.523.8
Tue, 8:00 AM EDT20Good323
Tue, 9:00 AM EDT20Good4.522.7
Tue, 10:00 AM EDT22Good4.522.4
Tue, 11:00 AM EDT23Good4.321.6
Tue, 12:00 PM EDT27Good5.621.1
Tue, 1:00 PM EDT28Good5.221.7
Tue, 2:00 PM EDT32Good6.422.9
Tue, 3:00 PM EDT35Good7.125.2
Tue, 4:00 PM EDT28Good3.827.4
Tue, 5:00 PM EDT27Good2.329.1
Tue, 6:00 PM EDT27Good1.729.9
Tue, 7:00 PM EDT28Good2.830.2
Tue, 8:00 PM EDT28Good3.530.2
Tue, 9:00 PM EDT27Good4.329.8
Tue, 10:00 PM EDT26Good3.128.9
Tue, 11:00 PM EDT25Good3.227.1
Wed, 12:00 AM EDT23Good425.2
Wed, 1:00 AM EDT21Good3.523.7
Wed, 2:00 AM EDT21Good323.1
Wed, 3:00 AM EDT21Good2.623.1
Wed, 4:00 AM EDT20Good1.722.8
Wed, 5:00 AM EDT20Good0.622
Wed, 6:00 AM EDT19Good0.821.4
Wed, 7:00 AM EDT19Good0.521.2
Wed, 8:00 AM EDT19Good1.220.9

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 Oak Park 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 Oak Park

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.