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Welcome to the website for information on
Smoke, Dust and Haze on the Palouse!
This webpage includes relevant links to other pages that give air quality information for eastern Washington and northern Idaho.
Data and air quality management policies are distributed among several agencies -the objective of this webpage is to compile the related information in one place.
Information is included for agricultural burn calls, air quality status, wildfire information and meteorology.
This website is updated manually on a daily basis, as and when data is received from cooperating institutions. While making every reasonable effort to ensure the timeliness of the data contained herein, occasional delays may result due to a variety of reasons. It is strongly recommended that the only as a guide, and that you contact your local authorities to obtain the agricultural burning.
Netscape users please see the note below
Air Quality Data in the Area
| Eastern Washington | All of Idaho- select area interactively |
| Spokane https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/aqp/Public/html/spokane.html | Daily
averages http://www.deq.state.id.us/air/aqindex.cfm |
| Pullman http://airdata.ce.wsu.edu |
Hourly data
(Takes a while to load applet) http://www.tcsn.net/family/Idaho/index.html |
Near- real time Air Quality data for several pollutants in most Washington Counties is available at https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/aqp/Public/databyarea.shtml
Data is also available for several pollutants: https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/aqp/Public/databypol.shtml
Wildfires in the Palouse and nearby regions
State by state summaries of Daily Wildland fire updates (updated daily during the burning season)
Fire and Aviation Management website
Fire Effects Information System (FEIS)
National Fire Weather Page with clickable links to all regions
Related links
See output of the Meteorological Model (MM5). MM5 is a research oriented numerical weather prediction model for the Pacific Northwest.
National Weather Service, Spokane Links to satellite images of the Palouse Region
US Forest Service Satellite Imagery
Temperatures in Washington Counties
Information about Idaho Counties
Air Quality modeling forecast page
Columbia Plateau PM10 project (CP3)
Disclaimer and list of Acknowledgements
This page has been tested with Internet Explorer 5 and above.
Netscape users please note that the Date And Time of Last Update is not always correctly displayed. If downloading an archived .ZIP file, the ZIP file name is the best indicator of the date to which the data refers.
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