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Air quality

Air quality brings in the air quality forecast for your places, cities or any point in the world: the US and European air quality index with its level in plain words, the particles PM2.5 and PM10, ozone and nitrogen dioxide, and pollen in Europe, for today and up to five days ahead. Use it to warn people before a day of bad air, to plan outdoor work and events, or to compare the air around your sites.

In the editor: The air quality forecast for up to 5 days (Open-Meteo, from the European Copernicus service’s global model): the US and European air quality index with its level in words, PM2.5, PM10, ozone and nitrogen dioxide, and pollen in Europe. For each incoming place it adds the air now, the worst day ahead and a short forecast; for cities, a point or the Area of interest it lists the forecast day by day (or hour by hour).

Settings

Where

Pick one

Automatic, Each incoming place (up to 500 a run), Area of interest (each city or area in it), Cities you type, or A point.

Uses the places that reach this block when they have a location, otherwise the Area of interest before it. Pick Cities or A point to choose instead.

  • Automatic
  • Each incoming place
  • Area of interest
  • Cities
  • A point

Cities

A list you type

Any city name; {{city}} takes it from the item that reaches this block (a webhook, for example).

Pick from 51 choices.

Point (latitude, longitude)

Text

Index

Pick one

The US index or the European one sets the level in words; both indexes are on every item, so you can switch later.

The US index: Good, Moderate, Unhealthy for sensitive groups, Unhealthy, Very unhealthy, Hazardous. Both indexes are on every item.

  • US AQI
  • European AQI

Days ahead

A number

Today and up to 5 days ahead. The global model reaches five days; over Europe four.

From today, 1 to 5 days.

Needed before the flow can run.

Detail

Pick one

Day by day: each day’s highest index and its average particles. Hour by hour: from the current hour on.

One row per day: the day’s highest index, its average particles.

  • Day by day
  • Hour by hour

Include pollen

On or off

Grass, birch, alder, olive, mugwort and ragweed pollen, measured in Europe only and in season. Elsewhere the field says Not measured here.

Grass, birch, alder, olive, mugwort and ragweed pollen, in Europe only and in season; elsewhere it says Not measured here.

What comes out

Each item that leaves the block carries these fields, to use in the blocks after it as {{field}}.

Each incoming place, with its air

Each incoming place, or Automatic when places come in.

  • aqi, aqi_scale, air_level: The index now on the scale you picked, and its level in words.
  • european_aqi, us_aqi: Both indexes, now.
  • pm2_5, pm10, ozone, no2: Fine and coarse particles, ozone and nitrogen dioxide, in micrograms a cubic metre.
  • main_pollutant: What sets the index today.
  • air_worst, air_worst_level, air_worst_day: The worst day ahead and its level.
  • air_bad_days: Days ahead with unhealthy (or poor) air.
  • air_summary, air_forecast: The air in one line, and day by day.
  • pollen_level, pollen_main: Pollen today in Europe, and the main kind.

Each day or hour, as an item

Area of interest, Cities or A point.

  • name, city, lat, lng: The city, area or point.
  • date, day (or time, starts_at): The day, or the hour with its time zone.
  • aqi, air_level, bad_air: The day’s highest index, its level, and whether the air is unhealthy (or poor).
  • pm2_5, pm10, ozone, no2, main_pollutant: The pollutants.

How to use it

Public sector

Advice for residents before bad air days

Three cities checked every morning; on days of unhealthy air a plain public message is ready to send.

Education

Keep playtime indoors when the air is worst

Head teachers hear before the first break which hours to keep children inside.

Construction

Dust and smog days at our sites

A contractor in Mumbai plans outdoor work at twelve sites.

Before: Crews worked through smog days with no warning.

With the flow: Heavy outdoor work moves to the days with cleaner air.

Hotels and tourism

A clean air note for guests

A hotel group in Bangkok sends guests a morning note in the burning season.

Healthcare

Pollen days ahead for allergy clinics

Clinics staff up before the high pollen days.

Sports and fitness

Outdoor classes and bad air

A class moves indoors before people breathe hard in smog.

Real estate

The air around my listings

Buyers ask about the air; agents have the answer at hand.

Logistics

Wildfire smoke near depots

Smoke can travel far from the fire itself; the air at each depot says what the crews will breathe.

Good to know

  • 1 credit for each place or location checked, at least 12 a run. Places closer than about 2 km share one forecast.
  • It is a forecast from a model (the European Copernicus service), not a sensor next to your place: use it to plan, and follow your local authority’s official alerts.
  • The index takes the worst of the pollutants. Particles (PM2.5) usually set it in cities and near fires; ozone on hot, sunny afternoons.
  • Unhealthy for sensitive groups starts at 101 on the US index; Poor at 60 on the European one. Put a Filter on Air quality index to keep only those days or places.
  • Pollen is measured in Europe only, and only in season.
  • Add Natural hazards before it to see the wildfires behind a day of smoke.

Works well with

  • Filter: Keeps only the items that match a rule.
  • Email: Sends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
  • Show on a map: Shows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
  • xMap LLM: Tell the AI what to do in plain words.
  • Natural hazards: Natural hazards happening now around your places, in an area or anywhere in the world: earthquakes (USGS), floods, tropical cyclones, volcanoes and droughts (GDACS, the UN and European Commission’s disaster alerts) and wildfires seen by satellite (NASA FIRMS).
  • Weather forecast: The weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
  • My data: Brings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
  • Slack: Channel-based messaging platform

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