Triad Air Quality

Triad Forecast

Synopsis and Discussion

With high pressure settled over the Triad, a cleaner air mass has infiltrated the state to lower air quality levels into the upper Code GREEN range. Light and variable winds are favorable for localized pooling of pollution concentrations, but its influence should not be significant enough to elevate particle pollution AQI more than anticipated. Southwesterly winds are expected to gradually increase through the day tomorrow as a dry cold front nears the Triad from the west, allowing particle pollution to accumulate ahead of the boundary to elevate AQI into the lower Code YELLOW range. The cold front quickly clears the Triad Wednesday night, allowing another ridge of high pressure to move into the region for Thursday. Particle pollution levels are expected to decrease with the change in air mass, likely leading to particle pollution AQI falling into the upper Code GREEN range temporarily on Thursday. Another cold front approaches on Friday, once again allowing particulate matter concentrations to rise ahead of the front to elevate particle pollution AQI to Code YELLOW for Friday. (Payne)

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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