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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 here
The app gives data on along with forecasts for many cities. For Edinburgh the forecast is alarmingly bad. Dalkeith just moderate.
However Defra gives a low pollution forecast for tomorrow.
Another site gives a whole range of forecasts.
I was going to look further into this when I have a bit more time, but does anyone here have any expertise in this?
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.
"Certainly there was a lot more traffic today"
Schools are back.
i saw several people complaining about the air qual in London today on fb and twitter.
BBC is onto this here
Link to BBC
- 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)."
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However, the results also show that large parts of Britain have relatively clean air.
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Probably true, but unless there are air quality monitors on every street then not really provable(?)
How is this possible?
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A new analysis by the company EarthSense shows NO2 concentrations in 100x100m squares across the UK.
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Plume are selling individual monitors (from June-ish). The data from those should help fill in gaps.
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.
Seems a bit bizarre to me!
@wish - my thoughts exactly!
Top story on Radio 4's PM this evening: an "expert" is answering questions from listeners.
Encouraging, if Middle England gets anxious about air pollution then finally something may actually change!
Also a programme on the box, bbc2 at 9
Yep, that's the one. Will iPlayer it laterz.
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!
BBC2 programme is having a debate very similar to Roseburn.
He suggests kids could walk to school or take a scooter/space hopper but silent on bikes.
The suggestion to cut the buses to the street also seemed a little odd.
Edinburgh smelt like a burning rubbish dump in yesterday's still weather.
I'm increasingly aware of the air catching my throat on still days.
Dispatches from Sheffield:
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!
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*.
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): http://www.michaeltsmith.org.uk/?p=121
(sorry I keep posting non-Edinburgh things - hopefully still relevant?! :)
*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).
UK's most polluted towns and cities revealed
Again? Will it make any difference?
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 ....)
WHO report can be found here
http://www.who.int/airpollution/en/
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