Pennsylvania air quality

Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania Air Quality

Monroe County40.896, -75.323

The nearest monitor to Saylorsburg, at Swiftwater, 13 miles away, measured an index of 27 at Wed, 3:00 PM EDT, which is Good for fine particles (PM2.5). New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection forecasts Good for Delaware Water Gap today and Moderate tomorrow.

Measured now
27 · Good
Today
50 · Good
Tomorrow
60 · Moderate
Pollutant
PM2.5

Fine particles on the map

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

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
Swiftwater, 13 miles away (site 420890002)
Index measured
27 · Good
Measured at
Wed, 3:00 PM EDT
Fine particles
4.4 µg/m³
Ozone
29 ppb
Reporting area
Delaware Water Gap, NJ, 21 miles away
Reported by
New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection
Area index
37 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection's own forecast for Delaware Water Gap, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood50PM2.5
TomorrowModerate60PM2.5
Friday, October 2Moderate55PM2.5
Saturday, October 3Good40PM2.5
Sunday, October 4Good45PM2.5

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection for Delaware Water Gap and filed with AirNow.

9/30 - High pressure dominating the area will provide calm winds, mostly sunny skies, and temperatures in the mid-to-upper 70s, causing air quality to slightly rise but overall remain in the good category. 10/1 - Above seasonal temperatures, with partly sunny skies and light southwesterly winds, will keep ozone in the high-good category with levels of fine particulates expected to rise into the moderate category statewide. 10/2 - Above seasonal temperatures are expected to prevail ahead of an incoming cold front, along with sunny skies and southwesterly winds, causing ozone levels to rise to the good/moderate threshold and keeping PM2.5 in the low moderate category. 10/3 - Cooler temperatures and a clean air mass is expected following the passing of a cold front, dropping ozone and fine particulates back into the good category statewide. 10/4 - Temperatures in the upper-60s and mostly cloudy skies will keep air quality in the good range throughout the Garden State.

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 74, Moderate, around Fri, 12:00 AM EDT, from the run issued Wed, 8:00 AM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Wed, 5:00 PM EDT27Good3.629.8
Wed, 6:00 PM EDT30Good5.632.3
Wed, 7:00 PM EDT31Good5.233.9
Wed, 8:00 PM EDT31Good5.834.3
Wed, 9:00 PM EDT37Good7.933.9
Wed, 10:00 PM EDT39Good7.533
Wed, 11:00 PM EDT44Good8.731.6
Thu, 12:00 AM EDT50Good10.229.8
Thu, 1:00 AM EDT53Moderate11.327.7
Thu, 2:00 AM EDT55Moderate12.325.6
Thu, 3:00 AM EDT56Moderate12.923.4
Thu, 4:00 AM EDT56Moderate12.121.7
Thu, 5:00 AM EDT56Moderate11.219.8
Thu, 6:00 AM EDT56Moderate11.718.1
Thu, 7:00 AM EDT55Moderate10.816.4
Thu, 8:00 AM EDT55Moderate1115.1
Thu, 9:00 AM EDT57Moderate13.714.3
Thu, 10:00 AM EDT58Moderate14.413.7
Thu, 11:00 AM EDT58Moderate13.213.4
Thu, 12:00 PM EDT58Moderate1313.4
Thu, 1:00 PM EDT59Moderate15.214
Thu, 2:00 PM EDT63Moderate18.314.4
Thu, 3:00 PM EDT68Moderate20.414.9
Thu, 4:00 PM EDT71Moderate2215.5
Thu, 5:00 PM EDT72Moderate21.216.9
Thu, 6:00 PM EDT72Moderate20.518.4
Thu, 7:00 PM EDT71Moderate19.819.8
Thu, 8:00 PM EDT71Moderate20.120.6
Thu, 9:00 PM EDT72Moderate20.921
Thu, 10:00 PM EDT72Moderate20.121.4
Thu, 11:00 PM EDT73Moderate22.122.2
Fri, 12:00 AM EDT74Moderate23.223.1
Fri, 1:00 AM EDT74Moderate2222.9
Fri, 2:00 AM EDT74Moderate20.822.5
Fri, 3:00 AM EDT74Moderate22.522.2
Fri, 4:00 AM EDT74Moderate22.221.9
Fri, 5:00 AM EDT74Moderate20.121.8
Fri, 6:00 AM EDT73Moderate19.221.7
Fri, 7:00 AM EDT71Moderate17.821.3
Fri, 8:00 AM EDT68Moderate15.320.5
Fri, 9:00 AM EDT65Moderate14.819.8
Fri, 10:00 AM EDT62Moderate13.219.9
Fri, 11:00 AM EDT62Moderate15.521
Fri, 12:00 PM EDT62Moderate15.123.3
Fri, 1:00 PM EDT62Moderate14.626.7
Fri, 2:00 PM EDT61Moderate14.530.6
Fri, 3:00 PM EDT60Moderate12.534.2
Fri, 4:00 PM EDT55Moderate9.337.4
Fri, 5:00 PM EDT50Good6.739.7
Fri, 6:00 PM EDT52Moderate10.440.5
Fri, 7:00 PM EDT47Good7.440.1
Fri, 8:00 PM EDT42Good6.738.6
Fri, 9:00 PM EDT38Good6.236.1
Fri, 10:00 PM EDT34Good5.633.1
Fri, 11:00 PM EDT28Good4.130.5
Sat, 12:00 AM EDT26Good3.828.4
Sat, 1:00 AM EDT24Good4.527
Sat, 2:00 AM EDT27Good5.526.2
Sat, 3:00 AM EDT27Good4.825.8
Sat, 4:00 AM EDT25Good4.325.7
Sat, 5:00 AM EDT24Good4.325.3
Sat, 6:00 AM EDT22Good3.524.4
Sat, 7:00 AM EDT21Good3.723.6
Sat, 8:00 AM EDT21Good3.123

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 Saylorsburg in satellite imagery today.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 0.1 µg/m³ around Thu, 3:00 PM EDT.

Smoke on the radar over Saylorsburg

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.