U.S. Air Quality

Good Air Quality today, California appears to be improving

Most of the country had Good PM 2.5 today. California continued to have scattered Code Orange hourly AQI values in the morning, clearing up to Moderate by late in the afternoon (left). Clouds covered both the eastern half of the country and most of the west coast.

A closer look at California reveals a cloudy area, with the associated AOD data being absent (likely because of the clouds):

An examination of NOAA’s hazard mapping system revealed no smoke plumes and very few hotspots across the country.

Posted by Adam Carpenter at January 5, 2009 6:24 PM