Triad Air Quality

Triad Forecast

Synopsis and Discussion

Particle pollution continues to remain moderately elevated in the Code YELLOW range this afternoon as the Triad remains on the western side of an offshore high pressure ridge, pulling in higher particle pollution concentrations from the south. Hourly particle pollution concentrations have slowly trended downward today and is expected to continue through Friday into weekend as the high pressure ridge circulates in a cleaner maritime air mass from the south and southwest. Other than periodic increases in cloud cover and a low chance very isolated showers, skies should be mostly sunny and free of precipitation to keep air quality levels in the upper Code GREEN range for tomorrow and Saturday. On Sunday, skies will become increasingly cloudy as a cold front approaches from the west to bring widespread showers and storms to the Triad through the late morning and afternoon, lowering air quality levels to the middle Code GREEN range. ***Due to increased wildfire risk and severe drought across most of the state, the N.C. Forest Service has issued a statewide ban on all open burning and has canceled all burning permits statewide.***

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Air Monitoring Data

The Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection is making data available from the county's air monitoring network as a public service. These data represent the hourly data set from all of the sites within this network. Data from Triad sites outside of Forsyth County are collected by the North Carolina Division of Air Quality.

Reports

• Current Hourly Data
• Yesterday's Data & Calibration Report
• Simple Key for Reading Data File