Pennsylvania air quality

Ryers, Pennsylvania Air Quality

Philadelphia County40.064, -75.087

The nearest monitor to Ryers, at LABP, 4 miles away, measured an index of 28 at Wed, 9:00 PM EDT, which is Good for fine particles (PM2.5). Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection forecasts Good for Philadelphia today and Good tomorrow.

Measured now
28 · Good
Today
38 · Good
Tomorrow
35 · Good
Pollutant
PM2.5

Fine particles on the map

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

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

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
LABP, 4 miles away (site 421010004)
Index measured
28 · Good
Measured at
Wed, 9:00 PM EDT
Fine particles
5 µg/m³
Ozone
24 ppb
Reporting area
Philadelphia, PA, 9 miles away
Reported by
Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection
Area index
66 · Moderate

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 Philadelphia, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood38PM2.5
TomorrowGood35PM2.5
Friday, September 25Good37Ozone
Saturday, September 26GoodPM2.5

The forecaster’s discussion

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

Current Conditions at 3 p.m. EDT this Wednesday afternoon: Skies are partly sunny across the area. A gusty northeast wind has acted to keep fine particle (PM2.5) and ozone concentrations low across most locations. Good air quality continues through the forecast period as the brisk northeast wind flow remains. Here are the forecast details: *** Thursday’s forecast: Sunshine and some clouds with a breezy northeast wind continuing. Afternoon highs will reach near 70 degrees. Low values of PM2.5 and ozone are expected. *** Extended forecast: Nice early fall weather continues Friday. A coastal storm moving back to the west may bring a couple of showers late Saturday into Sunday, then dry weather returns Monday with a pleasant afternoon. Good air quality will continue.---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 41, Good, around Thu, 8:00 PM EDT, from the run issued Wed, 8:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Wed, 10:00 AM EDT18Good3.5
Wed, 11:00 AM EDT17Good2.7
Wed, 12:00 PM EDT13Good1.8
Wed, 1:00 PM EDT9Good1
Wed, 2:00 PM EDT12Good2.6
Wed, 3:00 PM EDT19Good4.8
Wed, 4:00 PM EDT19Good3.220.5
Wed, 5:00 PM EDT21Good1.823.1
Wed, 6:00 PM EDT23Good1.825.2
Wed, 7:00 PM EDT24Good2.426.4
Wed, 8:00 PM EDT25Good3.127.1
Wed, 9:00 PM EDT24Good2.426.8
Wed, 10:00 PM EDT23Good325.7
Wed, 11:00 PM EDT22Good2.224.6
Thu, 12:00 AM EDT21Good1.823.2
Thu, 1:00 AM EDT19Good2.421.5
Thu, 2:00 AM EDT19Good2.320.2
Thu, 3:00 AM EDT18Good2.719.1
Thu, 4:00 AM EDT16Good317.9
Thu, 5:00 AM EDT18Good3.716.7
Thu, 6:00 AM EDT19Good3.916
Thu, 7:00 AM EDT19Good3.514.6
Thu, 8:00 AM EDT19Good3.713.3
Thu, 9:00 AM EDT18Good3.112.7
Thu, 10:00 AM EDT20Good3.912.5
Thu, 11:00 AM EDT20Good3.712.6
Thu, 12:00 PM EDT19Good3.113.8
Thu, 1:00 PM EDT18Good2.915.8
Thu, 2:00 PM EDT22Good5.118.4
Thu, 3:00 PM EDT34Good8.421.9
Thu, 4:00 PM EDT36Good6.925.9
Thu, 5:00 PM EDT34Good5.629.8
Thu, 6:00 PM EDT33Good633.1
Thu, 7:00 PM EDT35Good6.735.5
Thu, 8:00 PM EDT41Good8.435.7
Thu, 9:00 PM EDT41Good7.535
Thu, 10:00 PM EDT39Good6.633.4
Thu, 11:00 PM EDT35Good5.631.3
Fri, 12:00 AM EDT31Good529.1
Fri, 1:00 AM EDT29Good4.726.7
Fri, 2:00 AM EDT24Good3.724.4
Fri, 3:00 AM EDT20Good2.622.7
Fri, 4:00 AM EDT20Good2.722.1
Fri, 5:00 AM EDT19Good3.221.3
Fri, 6:00 AM EDT19Good3.220.5
Fri, 7:00 AM EDT18Good319.4
Fri, 8:00 AM EDT17Good2.718.2
Fri, 9:00 AM EDT16Good2.617.7
Fri, 10:00 AM EDT17Good3.518
Fri, 11:00 AM EDT18Good3.618.8
Fri, 12:00 PM EDT19Good3.720.5
Fri, 1:00 PM EDT21Good3.723.1
Fri, 2:00 PM EDT24Good5.126.5
Fri, 3:00 PM EDT30Good6.630.4
Fri, 4:00 PM EDT31Good4.933.9
Fri, 5:00 PM EDT33Good3.336.5
Fri, 6:00 PM EDT35Good438.2
Fri, 7:00 PM EDT35Good538.6
Fri, 8:00 PM EDT34Good4.937.8
Fri, 9:00 PM EDT33Good3.736.3
Fri, 10:00 PM EDT31Good4.534.1
Fri, 11:00 PM EDT29Good4.531.8
Sat, 12:00 AM EDT27Good4.729.6
Sat, 1:00 AM EDT26Good527.6
Sat, 2:00 AM EDT27Good525.7
Sat, 3:00 AM EDT27Good5.124.3
Sat, 4:00 AM EDT27Good4.923.6
Sat, 5:00 AM EDT27Good4.922.9
Sat, 6:00 AM EDT27Good5.221.1
Sat, 7:00 AM EDT27Good4.819.4
Sat, 8:00 AM EDT26Good4.417.9

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 Ryers 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 Ryers

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.