Nebraska air quality

Stromsburg, Nebraska Air Quality

Polk County41.114, -97.599

The nearest reporting area, Grand Island, measured an index of 0 this hour, which is Good. NOAA’s air quality model puts the worst hour ahead at an index of 28, Good.

Measured now
0 · Good
Today
Not forecast
Tomorrow
Not forecast
Pollutant
PM2.5

Fine particles on the map

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

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

Now

Good

Reporting area
Grand Island, NE, 43 miles away
Reported by
Nebraska Department of Environment and Energy
Area index
0 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

No state or local agency has filed a daily forecast for this area. NOAA’s model forecast below covers the same hours.

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 28, Good, around Wed, 3:00 AM CDT, from the run issued Sun, 7:00 AM CDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Sun, 9:00 AM CDT7Good1
Sun, 10:00 AM CDT9Good2.2
Sun, 11:00 AM CDT13Good2.9
Sun, 12:00 PM CDT14Good3
Sun, 1:00 PM CDT14Good2.6
Sun, 2:00 PM CDT14Good2.5
Sun, 3:00 PM CDT19Good3.221.4
Sun, 4:00 PM CDT20Good3.422.6
Sun, 5:00 PM CDT21Good3.423.8
Sun, 6:00 PM CDT22Good2.924.8
Sun, 7:00 PM CDT23Good325.4
Sun, 8:00 PM CDT23Good425.8
Sun, 9:00 PM CDT24Good3.726.5
Sun, 10:00 PM CDT24Good3.626.5
Sun, 11:00 PM CDT23Good3.125.8
Mon, 12:00 AM CDT22Good2.924.4
Mon, 1:00 AM CDT20Good3.223
Mon, 2:00 AM CDT19Good3.521.5
Mon, 3:00 AM CDT19Good3.620.2
Mon, 4:00 AM CDT19Good3.718.9
Mon, 5:00 AM CDT19Good3.717.1
Mon, 6:00 AM CDT18Good2.915.2
Mon, 7:00 AM CDT18Good2.913.6
Mon, 8:00 AM CDT17Good2.712.6
Mon, 9:00 AM CDT16Good2.912.1
Mon, 10:00 AM CDT16Good2.812.4
Mon, 11:00 AM CDT17Good3.213.1
Mon, 12:00 PM CDT16Good2.813.9
Mon, 1:00 PM CDT14Good1.915.2
Mon, 2:00 PM CDT16Good1.817.1
Mon, 3:00 PM CDT18Good2.419.1
Mon, 4:00 PM CDT19Good2.521.3
Mon, 5:00 PM CDT20Good2.322.7
Mon, 6:00 PM CDT21Good323.5
Mon, 7:00 PM CDT22Good2.724.1
Mon, 8:00 PM CDT22Good3.224.3
Mon, 9:00 PM CDT21Good2.523.9
Mon, 10:00 PM CDT21Good2.123.4
Mon, 11:00 PM CDT21Good2.423.1
Tue, 12:00 AM CDT20Good2.722.5
Tue, 1:00 AM CDT20Good3.122.1
Tue, 2:00 AM CDT19Good4.222
Tue, 3:00 AM CDT20Good3.921.5
Tue, 4:00 AM CDT19Good3.221.1
Tue, 5:00 AM CDT19Good3.620.9
Tue, 6:00 AM CDT19Good3.520
Tue, 7:00 AM CDT19Good3.418.5
Tue, 8:00 AM CDT18Good3.317
Tue, 9:00 AM CDT18Good316.1
Tue, 10:00 AM CDT18Good3.315.2
Tue, 11:00 AM CDT18Good3.614.7
Tue, 12:00 PM CDT18Good3.114.9
Tue, 1:00 PM CDT16Good2.615.5
Tue, 2:00 PM CDT16Good2.816.8
Tue, 3:00 PM CDT17Good3.618.9
Tue, 4:00 PM CDT19Good4.121.4
Tue, 5:00 PM CDT21Good3.923.3
Tue, 6:00 PM CDT23Good3.325
Tue, 7:00 PM CDT24Good3.426.7
Tue, 8:00 PM CDT25Good427.9
Tue, 9:00 PM CDT26Good4.328.9
Tue, 10:00 PM CDT27Good429.2
Tue, 11:00 PM CDT26Good4.428.9
Wed, 12:00 AM CDT25Good4.827.9
Wed, 1:00 AM CDT24Good4.526.6
Wed, 2:00 AM CDT27Good5.524.5
Wed, 3:00 AM CDT28Good5.322.3
Wed, 4:00 AM CDT26Good4.320.2
Wed, 5:00 AM CDT26Good4.418.2
Wed, 6:00 AM CDT24Good4.216.1
Wed, 7:00 AM CDT25Good4.614.2

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 analysts have not drawn smoke over Stromsburg 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 Stromsburg

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 StromsburgWarnings in Polk CountyLive radar over StromsburgNebraska 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.