http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Pollution forecasts en Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:19:41 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-281647 Wed, 02 May 2018 09:41:42 +0000 amir 281647@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>WHO report can be found here<br /> <a href="http://www.who.int/airpollution/en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.who.int/airpollution/en/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-281645 Wed, 02 May 2018 09:25:34 +0000 amir 281645@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-43964341">UK's most polluted towns and cities revealed</a></p> <p>Again? Will it make any difference?</p> <p>The WHO figures look a little odd - not least because Prestonpans is picked out and not Edinburgh. That's for fine particles. The link given points to a different analysis based on NO2 and both Edinburgh and Prestonpans come out okay. However we know that pollution levels vary greatly between locations over a short range and especially over time (depending on weather, traffic ....) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-272077 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 11:10:01 +0000 lionfish 272077@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dispatches from Sheffield:<br /> Weather was still here too + schools back = really terrible air quality. My commute here is along a main road - miss my canal+meadows route of Edinburgh!</p> <p>The university here has been funded to deploy a high-resolution network monitoring the city. Will be going to a meeting next week about it*.</p> <p>I've also been working on monitoring Kampala's air quality - we've got a network of monitors (some fixed, some on motorbike taxis) that'll hopefully give a detailed map of the city. [spoiler alert: Kampala's air is /really/ polluted]. Here's me talking about the project (it's moved on quite a bit since the video): <a href="http://www.michaeltsmith.org.uk/?p=121" rel="nofollow">http://www.michaeltsmith.org.uk/?p=121</a></p> <p>(sorry I keep posting non-Edinburgh things - hopefully still relevant?! :)</p> <p>*I'm interested in how we calibrate and build on the low-cost low-quality measurements from all these distributed sensors (i.e. how we combine them with one or two high quality, calibrated, BAM/etc sensors provided by the council or provided by the US Embassy in Kampala). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-272070 Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:44:27 +0000 I were right about that saddle 272070@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Edinburgh smelt like a burning rubbish dump in yesterday's still weather. </p> <p>I'm increasingly aware of the air catching my throat on still days. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-272059 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:57:41 +0000 HankChief 272059@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm tasking West Edinburgh politicians to say what they are going to do about it...</p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/hank_chief/status/951224552151019520">tweet</a></p> <p>Starting to get some responses... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-272055 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 23:43:03 +0000 HankChief 272055@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Now on IPlayer <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09m2djj/fighting-for-air" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09m2djj/fighting-for-air</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-272044 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:43:42 +0000 Ed1 272044@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>He suggests kids could walk to school or take a scooter/space hopper but silent on bikes.</p> <p>The suggestion to cut the buses to the street also seemed a little odd. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-272043 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:16:27 +0000 HankChief 272043@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>BBC2 programme is having a debate very similar to Roseburn. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-272042 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:15:29 +0000 crowriver 272042@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just watching it now, Opening scene has presenter in an NBC suit with heavy duty breathing mask wandering around in Edinburgh in.....wait for it.....Picardy Place. That represents urban air pollution, it seems! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-272039 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:28:58 +0000 crowriver 272039@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yep, that's the one. Will iPlayer it laterz. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-272032 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 20:43:40 +0000 amir 272032@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Also a programme on the box, bbc2 at 9 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-272022 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:39:56 +0000 crowriver 272022@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Top story on Radio 4's PM this evening: an "expert" is answering questions from listeners.</p> <p>Encouraging, if Middle England gets anxious about air pollution then finally something may actually change! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-271977 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:37:37 +0000 rider73 271977@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@wish - my thoughts exactly! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-271974 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 13:16:02 +0000 wishicouldgofaster 271974@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I put in a St John's Road postcode which is meant to have dangerous levels and it gave it a score of 2 - A rating of 2 means there is a low chance of nitrogen dioxide levels exceeding the annual legal limit. The air in your area is generally clean and should not cause health concerns except in exceptional weather conditions.</p> <p>Seems a bit bizarre to me! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-271941 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:59:29 +0000 amir 271941@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Plume are selling individual monitors (from June-ish). The data from those should help fill in gaps. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-271933 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:16:24 +0000 chdot 271933@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"</p> <p>However, the results also show that large parts of Britain have relatively clean air.</p> <p>"</p> <p>Probably true, but unless there are air quality monitors on every street then not really provable(?)</p> <p>How is this possible?</p> <p>"</p> <p>A new analysis by the company EarthSense shows NO2 concentrations in 100x100m squares across the UK. </p> <p>" </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-271930 Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:57:53 +0000 rider73 271930@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>BBC is onto this here<br /> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42566393">Link to BBC</a></p> <p>- i put in my works postcode and it said 1 out of 6, "This is the same as the average for City of Edinburgh, which is 1 out of 6 (good)." </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-271875 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 13:07:08 +0000 SRD 271875@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i saw several people complaining about the air qual in London today on fb and twitter. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-271868 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:55:11 +0000 crowriver 271868@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Certainly there was a lot more traffic today"</p> <p>Schools are back. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-271867 Tue, 09 Jan 2018 11:51:56 +0000 amir 271867@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Plume forecast (and current readings) now more in moderate zone, though rising to high tomorrow. Perhaps plume gives a more negative forecast? Certainly there was a lot more traffic today and little wind. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18509#post-271841 Mon, 08 Jan 2018 23:41:27 +0000 amir 271841@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have the Plume app on my phone, partly out of interest since next year they will have access to individual based monitoring data. See <a href="https://air.plumelabs.com/en/live/edinburgh">here</a> </p> <p>The app gives data on along with forecasts for many cities. For Edinburgh the forecast is alarmingly bad. Dalkeith just moderate. </p> <p>However <a href="https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/forecasting/locations?q=Edinburgh&amp;day=2">Defra</a> gives a low pollution forecast for tomorrow. </p> <p>Another <a href="http://aqicn.org/forecast/">site</a> gives a whole range of forecasts.</p> <p>I was going to look further into this when I have a bit more time, but does anyone here have any expertise in this? </p>