Pennsylvania air quality

South Coatesville, Pennsylvania Air Quality

Chester County39.974, -75.820

The nearest monitor to South Coatesville, at New Garden, 10 miles away, measured an index of 42 at Wed, 4:00 AM EDT, which is Good for fine particles (PM2.5). Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment forecasts Good for Wilmington Area today and Moderate tomorrow.

Measured now
42 · Good
Today
50 · Good
Tomorrow
61 · Moderate
Pollutant
PM2.5

Fine particles on the map

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

Now

Good

Nearest monitor
New Garden, 10 miles away (site 420290100)
Index measured
42 · Good
Measured at
Wed, 4:00 AM EDT
Fine particles
7.7 µg/m³
Ozone
7 ppb
Reporting area
Wilmington Area, DE, 22 miles away
Reported by
Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment
Area index
29 · Good

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

Today and tomorrow

Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment's own forecast for Wilmington Area, written by a forecaster rather than read off a model.

DayCategoryIndexPollutant
TodayGood50Ozone
TomorrowModerate61Ozone
Friday, October 2Moderate54Ozone

The forecaster’s discussion

Written by Delaware Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment for Wilmington Area and filed with AirNow.

Wednesday, September 30: As surface high pressure moves into the state, light west-southwesterly winds will inhibit dispersion. Furthermore, increasing sunshine and slightly warmer temperatures will aid ozone development. However, pollutant carryover from the previous days will be low. Thus, AQI levels are anticipated to be high-Good for ozone and PM2.5. Thursday, a building ridge of high pressure aloft will limit atmospheric mixing. In addition, southwesterly winds will carry regional pollutants into Delaware, while mostly sunny skies and highs in the low- to mid-80s support ozone formation. Therefore, low-Moderate AQI levels are anticipated for ozone and PM2.5. Friday, as a cold front approaches from the northwest, south-southwesterly winds will strengthen, increasing mixing and dispersion. However, mostly sunny skies and warm temperatures will continue to aid ozone production. As a result, AQI levels are anticipated to be low-Moderate for ozone and high-Good for PM2.5.

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 63, Moderate, around Thu, 8:00 PM EDT, from the run issued Tue, 11:00 PM EDT. This is a model, not a measurement.

HourIndexCategoryPM2.5Ozone
Wed, 5:00 AM EDT36Good6.518.3
Wed, 6:00 AM EDT35Good6.217.6
Wed, 7:00 AM EDT38Good7.417.1
Wed, 8:00 AM EDT37Good7.116.5
Wed, 9:00 AM EDT39Good7.915.7
Wed, 10:00 AM EDT39Good715.8
Wed, 11:00 AM EDT38Good6.416.8
Wed, 12:00 PM EDT37Good6.218.3
Wed, 1:00 PM EDT36Good620.6
Wed, 2:00 PM EDT33Good5.323.6
Wed, 3:00 PM EDT31Good4.927
Wed, 4:00 PM EDT28Good4.430.8
Wed, 5:00 PM EDT31Good434.9
Wed, 6:00 PM EDT34Good5.437.9
Wed, 7:00 PM EDT37Good7.840.5
Wed, 8:00 PM EDT48Good11.143
Wed, 9:00 PM EDT54Moderate13.144.9
Wed, 10:00 PM EDT57Moderate13.845.5
Wed, 11:00 PM EDT57Moderate12.545.4
Thu, 12:00 AM EDT56Moderate11.444.3
Thu, 1:00 AM EDT56Moderate11.442.4
Thu, 2:00 AM EDT54Moderate10.140.2
Thu, 3:00 AM EDT52Moderate9.137.6
Thu, 4:00 AM EDT52Moderate9.334.3
Thu, 5:00 AM EDT52Moderate9.330.9
Thu, 6:00 AM EDT49Good8.128.3
Thu, 7:00 AM EDT50Good9.126.1
Thu, 8:00 AM EDT52Moderate1024.1
Thu, 9:00 AM EDT52Moderate9.922.9
Thu, 10:00 AM EDT52Moderate10.322.7
Thu, 11:00 AM EDT52Moderate10.423.6
Thu, 12:00 PM EDT53Moderate10.825.6
Thu, 1:00 PM EDT53Moderate11.328.5
Thu, 2:00 PM EDT54Moderate11.431.9
Thu, 3:00 PM EDT54Moderate10.936
Thu, 4:00 PM EDT54Moderate1139.8
Thu, 5:00 PM EDT55Moderate12.443.6
Thu, 6:00 PM EDT59Moderate15.646.8
Thu, 7:00 PM EDT62Moderate1749.8
Thu, 8:00 PM EDT63Moderate17.152.3
Thu, 9:00 PM EDT63Moderate15.453.3
Thu, 10:00 PM EDT62Moderate14.452.6
Thu, 11:00 PM EDT61Moderate13.351.1
Fri, 12:00 AM EDT60Moderate12.750.3
Fri, 1:00 AM EDT58Moderate11.549.1
Fri, 2:00 AM EDT57Moderate11.247.4
Fri, 3:00 AM EDT56Moderate1144.5
Fri, 4:00 AM EDT56Moderate11.240.3
Fri, 5:00 AM EDT55Moderate11.436.3
Fri, 6:00 AM EDT56Moderate11.933.6
Fri, 7:00 AM EDT55Moderate11.531
Fri, 8:00 AM EDT55Moderate11.428.3

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 South Coatesville in satellite imagery today.

NOAA’s model forecasts near-surface smoke peaking at 1.2 µg/m³ around Fri, 12:00 AM EDT.

Smoke on the radar over South Coatesville

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.