Michigan air quality

Springport, Michigan Air Quality

Jackson County42.378, -84.699

The nearest monitor to Springport, at Lansing, 27 miles away, measured an index of 18 at Wed, 5:00 AM EDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy forecasts Good for Lansing today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
18 · Good
Today
— · Good
Tomorrow
— · Good
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

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

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Lansing, 27 miles away (site 260650018)
Index measured
18 · Good
Measured at
Wed, 5:00 AM EDT
Fine particles
3 µg/m³
Ozone
20 ppb
Reporting area
Lansing, MI, 27 miles away
Reported by
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy
Area index
18 · 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 Lansing, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGoodOzone
TomorrowGoodOzone
Friday, September 25GoodOzone

The forecaster’s discussion

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

Dry weather returns today, Monday, as high pressure settles north of Lake Superior, setting up a cooler, quiet week. Winds begin out of the northeast and shift to the east mid week. High temperatures in the low to mid 60s, will warm toward 70 late in the workweek. Lows drop into the 30s in northern areas and the 40s elsewhere. Air quality will stay mostly in the Good range this week. Ozone remains low thanks to cooler temperatures and reduced daylight. Fine particulates stay at Good levels with northeast to east winds, though southern areas may briefly reach low Moderate later in the 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 34, Good, around Thu, 7:00 PM EDT, from the run issued Tue, 11:00 PM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Tue, 10:00 AM EDT20Good3
Tue, 11:00 AM EDT14Good2
Tue, 12:00 PM EDT12Good1.6
Tue, 1:00 PM EDT8Good1.1
Tue, 2:00 PM EDT8Good1.3
Tue, 3:00 PM EDT8Good1.5
Tue, 4:00 PM EDT24Good1.726.8
Tue, 5:00 PM EDT27Good2.429.2
Tue, 6:00 PM EDT29Good1.731.1
Tue, 7:00 PM EDT30Good1.932.1
Tue, 8:00 PM EDT30Good332.2
Tue, 9:00 PM EDT30Good3.632.1
Tue, 10:00 PM EDT29Good4.731.5
Tue, 11:00 PM EDT28Good5.330.6
Wed, 12:00 AM EDT28Good5.529.2
Wed, 1:00 AM EDT30Good5.927.7
Wed, 2:00 AM EDT30Good5.426.2
Wed, 3:00 AM EDT28Good4.724.8
Wed, 4:00 AM EDT26Good4.223.6
Wed, 5:00 AM EDT23Good3.822.4
Wed, 6:00 AM EDT22Good3.721.2
Wed, 7:00 AM EDT20Good3.419.9
Wed, 8:00 AM EDT20Good3.518.7
Wed, 9:00 AM EDT20Good3.617.7
Wed, 10:00 AM EDT22Good4.617.2
Wed, 11:00 AM EDT24Good4.817.6
Wed, 12:00 PM EDT23Good418.6
Wed, 1:00 PM EDT22Good3.820
Wed, 2:00 PM EDT23Good4.521.9
Wed, 3:00 PM EDT22Good3.724.4
Wed, 4:00 PM EDT25Good2.927.2
Wed, 5:00 PM EDT28Good2.530.2
Wed, 6:00 PM EDT30Good2.632.7
Wed, 7:00 PM EDT31Good1.934.4
Wed, 8:00 PM EDT31Good134.9
Wed, 9:00 PM EDT31Good0.334.5
Wed, 10:00 PM EDT31Good0.433.1
Wed, 11:00 PM EDT29Good0.931.2
Thu, 12:00 AM EDT27Good1.429
Thu, 1:00 AM EDT24Good1.826.4
Thu, 2:00 AM EDT21Good2.623.4
Thu, 3:00 AM EDT19Good3.720.6
Thu, 4:00 AM EDT21Good4.718.5
Thu, 5:00 AM EDT25Good5.216.9
Thu, 6:00 AM EDT27Good5.215.8
Thu, 7:00 AM EDT26Good4.414.8
Thu, 8:00 AM EDT23Good3.914.1
Thu, 9:00 AM EDT22Good3.913.8
Thu, 10:00 AM EDT24Good4.714.4
Thu, 11:00 AM EDT24Good4.415.9
Thu, 12:00 PM EDT23Good4.118
Thu, 1:00 PM EDT22Good3.720.8
Thu, 2:00 PM EDT22Good3.624.1
Thu, 3:00 PM EDT25Good427.7
Thu, 4:00 PM EDT29Good4.431.2
Thu, 5:00 PM EDT31Good434.5
Thu, 6:00 PM EDT33Good2.936.9
Thu, 7:00 PM EDT34Good1.637.9
Thu, 8:00 PM EDT34Good0.837.5
Thu, 9:00 PM EDT32Good1.236
Thu, 10:00 PM EDT31Good1.233.7
Thu, 11:00 PM EDT29Good1.231.1
Fri, 12:00 AM EDT26Good1.228.1
Fri, 1:00 AM EDT22Good0.824.9
Fri, 2:00 AM EDT19Good1.821.8
Fri, 3:00 AM EDT18Good2.319.1
Fri, 4:00 AM EDT15Good2.617
Fri, 5:00 AM EDT15Good3.215.5
Fri, 6:00 AM EDT16Good3.114.2
Fri, 7:00 AM EDT16Good2.712.8
Fri, 8:00 AM EDT14Good2.411.7

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 Springport 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 Springport

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.

Weather forecast for SpringportWarnings in Jackson CountyLive radar over SpringportMichigan air quality

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.