Ohio air quality

Rock Creek, Ohio Air Quality

Ashtabula County41.660, -80.861

The nearest monitor to Rock Creek, at Kinsman Maintenance, 20 miles away, measured an index of 20 at Tue, 7:00 PM EDT, which is Good for ground-level ozone. Eastgate Regional Council of Governments forecasts Good for Youngstown today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
20 · Good
Today
31 · Good
Tomorrow
33 · Good
Pollutant
Ozone

Fine particles on the map

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

Forecast fine particulate matter from NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability over Rock Creek, Ohio 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 Rock Creek right now. All Ohio warnings.

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Kinsman Maintenance, 20 miles away (site 391550013)
Index measured
20 · Good
Measured at
Tue, 7:00 PM EDT
Ozone
21 ppb
Reporting area
Youngstown, OH, 31 miles away
Reported by
Eastgate Regional Council of Governments
Area index
23 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Eastgate Regional Council of Governments's own forecast for Youngstown, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood31Ozone
TomorrowGood33Ozone
Thursday, September 24Good39PM2.5
Friday, September 25Good39Ozone
Saturday, September 26Good40Ozone
Sunday, September 27Good41Ozone

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Eastgate Regional Council of Governments for Youngstown and filed with AirNow.

Tuesday, September 22 through Wednesday, September 23: Clouds, scattered showers, and cool temperatures will limit ozone production in Youngstown-Warren. Furthermore, moderate easterly winds throughout much of the period will disperse pollutants and transport clean air into northeastern Ohio as a surface high moves across southern Ontario and Quebec. As a result, AQI levels will be Good on both days. Thursday, as the surface ridge weakens to the north, lighter easterly winds will hinder dispersion. In addition, mostly sunny skies will aid ozone development. However, low pollutant carryover and cool temperatures will allow AQI levels to remain Good. Friday through Sunday, light to moderate northeasterly to northerly winds will continue to carry clean Canadian air into the Ohio Valley as a low pressure system deepens off the East Coast. Furthermore, highs in the upper-60s to low-70s will limit ozone production, leading to continued Good AQI levels on all three days.

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 Tue, 9:00 PM EDT, from the run issued Tue, 8:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Tue, 10:00 AM EDT2Good0.2
Tue, 11:00 AM EDT3Good0.5
Tue, 12:00 PM EDT4Good1.2
Tue, 1:00 PM EDT7Good1.7
Tue, 2:00 PM EDT9Good2.2
Tue, 3:00 PM EDT11Good2.2
Tue, 4:00 PM EDT20Good2.122.4
Tue, 5:00 PM EDT21Good2.324
Tue, 6:00 PM EDT23Good1.725.7
Tue, 7:00 PM EDT25Good1.227.6
Tue, 8:00 PM EDT27Good0.629.1
Tue, 9:00 PM EDT28Good0.430.3
Tue, 10:00 PM EDT28Good0.330.9
Tue, 11:00 PM EDT28Good0.830.9
Wed, 12:00 AM EDT28Good1.430.5
Wed, 1:00 AM EDT27Good1.729.9
Wed, 2:00 AM EDT27Good1.829
Wed, 3:00 AM EDT25Good1.328
Wed, 4:00 AM EDT24Good1.226.8
Wed, 5:00 AM EDT23Good1.525.6
Wed, 6:00 AM EDT22Good1.424.5
Wed, 7:00 AM EDT21Good1.523.5
Wed, 8:00 AM EDT20Good1.222.6
Wed, 9:00 AM EDT19Good121.7
Wed, 10:00 AM EDT19Good121.1
Wed, 11:00 AM EDT19Good0.621
Wed, 12:00 PM EDT19Good121.1
Wed, 1:00 PM EDT19Good0.921.2
Wed, 2:00 PM EDT19Good0.221.3
Wed, 3:00 PM EDT19Good0.321.6
Wed, 4:00 PM EDT20Good0.922.1
Wed, 5:00 PM EDT20Good1.222.9
Wed, 6:00 PM EDT21Good0.923.5
Wed, 7:00 PM EDT21Good0.623.7
Wed, 8:00 PM EDT21Good0.923.2
Wed, 9:00 PM EDT20Good0.722.6
Wed, 10:00 PM EDT19Good0.622
Wed, 11:00 PM EDT19Good0.421.5
Thu, 12:00 AM EDT19Good0.121.1
Thu, 1:00 AM EDT19Good0.220.4
Thu, 2:00 AM EDT18Good0.719.6
Thu, 3:00 AM EDT17Good1.918.9
Thu, 4:00 AM EDT17Good2.418.7
Thu, 5:00 AM EDT17Good2.718.9
Thu, 6:00 AM EDT18Good319.3
Thu, 7:00 AM EDT18Good3.119.4
Thu, 8:00 AM EDT17Good3.118.9
Thu, 9:00 AM EDT17Good2.618.5
Thu, 10:00 AM EDT17Good1.918.8
Thu, 11:00 AM EDT18Good1.219.4
Thu, 12:00 PM EDT19Good0.920.2
Thu, 1:00 PM EDT19Good0.921.2
Thu, 2:00 PM EDT20Good0.822.2
Thu, 3:00 PM EDT21Good0.523.5
Thu, 4:00 PM EDT23Good0.825.4
Thu, 5:00 PM EDT25Good0.827.4
Thu, 6:00 PM EDT26Good0.828.6
Thu, 7:00 PM EDT27Good129.3
Thu, 8:00 PM EDT26Good1.128.9
Thu, 9:00 PM EDT25Good1.128
Thu, 10:00 PM EDT24Good126.7
Thu, 11:00 PM EDT23Good125.1
Fri, 12:00 AM EDT21Good0.823.4
Fri, 1:00 AM EDT19Good0.621.5
Fri, 2:00 AM EDT18Good0.819.7
Fri, 3:00 AM EDT16Good1.217.9
Fri, 4:00 AM EDT15Good1.316.8
Fri, 5:00 AM EDT14Good1.615.9
Fri, 6:00 AM EDT14Good1.115
Fri, 7:00 AM EDT13Good1.114.3
Fri, 8:00 AM EDT12Good0.913.7

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 Rock Creek 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 Rock Creek

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 Rock CreekWarnings in Ashtabula CountyLive radar over Rock CreekOhio 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.