Ohio air quality

Ashtabula, Ohio Air Quality

Ashtabula County41.865, -80.790

The nearest monitor to Ashtabula, at Conneaut, 13 miles away, measured an index of 9 at Sun, 6:00 AM EDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection forecasts Good for Erie today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
9 · Good
Today
40 · Good
Tomorrow
36 · Good
Pollutant
Ozone

Radar

Reflectivity now over Ashtabula, Ohio. Open it to see the particulate forecast on the map.

Open the live radar with the particulate forecast

Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and 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 Ashtabula right now. All Ohio warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Conneaut, 13 miles away (site 390071001)
Index measured
9 · Good
Measured at
Sun, 6:00 AM EDT
Ozone
5 ppb
Reporting area
Erie, PA, 41 miles away
Reported by
Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection
Area index
23 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection's own forecast for Erie, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood40PM2.5
TomorrowGood36Ozone
Tuesday, September 22Good38PM2.5
Wednesday, September 23GoodOzone

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection for Erie and filed with AirNow.

Current Conditions at 4 PM EDT this Friday afternoon: Skies are sunny across the area. A northerly flow of clean air is keeping PM2.5 and ozone values low. Good air quality is expected the next few days, but weather systems coming in from the west will lead to unsettled conditions Sunday into early next week. Here are the forecast details: *** Saturday’s forecast: Clouds and a little sunshine Saturday with a light southeast wind and highs in the lower 70s. Ozone and PM2.5 concentrations will average in the good range. Showers and a thunderstorm will move in Saturday evening. *** Sunday’s forecast: Mostly cloudy Sunday with additional showers and a thunderstorm, mainly in the morning. Air quality will remain in the good range as highs reach the upper 60s. *** Monday’s forecast: Clouds and a little sun and cool Monday with precipitation remaining to the south as highs only reach the middle 60s. Good air quality is expected. *** Extended forecast: An unsettled weather pattern remains as we move into the middle of the week. Fall will officially arrive at 8:04 pm EDT Tuesday evening. Plenty of cloudiness Tuesday and Wednesday with the chance for showers both days. Cool with high temperatures being limited to the lower 60s. Air quality mainly in the good range.---McAuliffe

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 37, Good, around Sun, 5:00 AM EDT, from the run issued Sun, 2:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Sun, 4:00 AM EDT36Good6.2
Sun, 5:00 AM EDT37Good6.9
Sun, 6:00 AM EDT37Good6.9
Sun, 7:00 AM EDT37Good6.8
Sun, 8:00 AM EDT35Good5.3
Sun, 9:00 AM EDT26Good3.3
Sun, 10:00 AM EDT22Good3.317.2
Sun, 11:00 AM EDT23Good4.317.6
Sun, 12:00 PM EDT24Good4.818.7
Sun, 1:00 PM EDT22Good3.420.5
Sun, 2:00 PM EDT20Good2.922.2
Sun, 3:00 PM EDT21Good3.123.5
Sun, 4:00 PM EDT22Good3.524.7
Sun, 5:00 PM EDT23Good4.725.5
Sun, 6:00 PM EDT27Good5.626.6
Sun, 7:00 PM EDT30Good6.127.8
Sun, 8:00 PM EDT30Good5.528.9
Sun, 9:00 PM EDT27Good2.429.7
Sun, 10:00 PM EDT28Good3.830.1
Sun, 11:00 PM EDT28Good3.430.7
Mon, 12:00 AM EDT29Good3.731.2
Mon, 1:00 AM EDT29Good431.5
Mon, 2:00 AM EDT29Good4.731.4
Mon, 3:00 AM EDT29Good4.631.1
Mon, 4:00 AM EDT28Good4.330.5
Mon, 5:00 AM EDT27Good4.129.9
Mon, 6:00 AM EDT27Good4.429.1
Mon, 7:00 AM EDT26Good528.1
Mon, 8:00 AM EDT26Good4.927.1
Mon, 9:00 AM EDT26Good4.526.1
Mon, 10:00 AM EDT24Good4.124.9
Mon, 11:00 AM EDT22Good3.223.6
Mon, 12:00 PM EDT20Good2.622.6
Mon, 1:00 PM EDT19Good2.522
Mon, 2:00 PM EDT19Good2.621.9
Mon, 3:00 PM EDT19Good2.521.9
Mon, 4:00 PM EDT20Good2.622.3
Mon, 5:00 PM EDT21Good2.223
Mon, 6:00 PM EDT22Good1.124.3
Mon, 7:00 PM EDT23Good0.925.8
Mon, 8:00 PM EDT24Good1.326.9
Mon, 9:00 PM EDT25Good0.527.5
Mon, 10:00 PM EDT25Good0.327.6
Mon, 11:00 PM EDT25Good0.327.6
Tue, 12:00 AM EDT25Good0.427.6
Tue, 1:00 AM EDT25Good0.427.2
Tue, 2:00 AM EDT24Good0.626.5
Tue, 3:00 AM EDT23Good1.425.6
Tue, 4:00 AM EDT22Good1.724.8
Tue, 5:00 AM EDT21Good1.623.8
Tue, 6:00 AM EDT21Good2.123.3
Tue, 7:00 AM EDT20Good2.322.8
Tue, 8:00 AM EDT20Good2.622.4
Tue, 9:00 AM EDT20Good3.322.2
Tue, 10:00 AM EDT20Good4.322.2
Tue, 11:00 AM EDT22Good4.322.3
Tue, 12:00 PM EDT23Good4.422.5
Tue, 1:00 PM EDT21Good3.623.2
Tue, 2:00 PM EDT22Good3.224.3
Tue, 3:00 PM EDT23Good2.825.3
Tue, 4:00 PM EDT24Good2.326.2
Tue, 5:00 PM EDT24Good1.626.8
Tue, 6:00 PM EDT25Good0.527.4
Tue, 7:00 PM EDT25Good0.127.9
Tue, 8:00 PM EDT26Good1.128.2
Tue, 9:00 PM EDT26Good128.4
Tue, 10:00 PM EDT25Good0.927.9
Tue, 11:00 PM EDT25Good0.827.6
Wed, 12:00 AM EDT25Good0.727.6
Wed, 1:00 AM EDT25Good0.727.9
Wed, 2:00 AM EDT26Good0.628.3

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 Ashtabula 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 Ashtabula

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.