This page contains real-time data from the BLANKET air station at Latrobe (north-west Tasmania) for today and yesterday. The Latrobe station is located approximately 700 metres east of the town centre.
Current air quality at Latrobe
Date: 12 October 2024 Time: 01:44 AEST (add one hour for summer time)
Current PM10 = 7 micrograms per cubic metre
Current PM2.5 = 3 micrograms per cubic metre
Hour-average PM2.5 = 6 micrograms per cubic metre
Air quality health category (from the hour-average PM2.5) is good
The plots below show PM10 and PM2.5 indicative data (top panel) and meteorological data (lower panel) measured today at Latrobe. The most recent measurements are shown in the boxes to the right of the plots below.
Key:
T - air temperature
RH - relative humidity
WS - wind speed
WD - wind direction
RF - daily rainfall
P - mean sea-level pressure (MSLP)
The meteorological data are provided as a guide to interpreting the air quality data. They should not be used in place of Bureau of Meteorology data for determining weather conditions in a given region.
Please Note: subject to network connectivity, this plot will be updated approximately every 10 minutes during the day. Use the 'Refresh' or 'Reload' button on your browser (or press F5) to refresh the plot. If networking issues do not allow real-time access on a given day the plot will show the most recently available data.
More information about interpreting the plots
Air quality health categories
The Tasmanian Department of Health provides the following air quality health categories based on the hour-averaged PM2.5 value:
Good: 0 to 9 micrograms per cubic metre
Fairly Good: 10 to 24 micrograms per cubic metre
Fairly Poor: 25 to 49 micrograms per cubic metre
Poor: 50 to 99 micrograms per cubic metre
Very Poor: 100 to 299 micrograms per cubic metre
Extremely Poor: Over 300 micrograms per cubic metre
See the Department of Health Air Quality page for more information - scroll down to Tracking Air Quality for category descriptions.
Use this link
to access annual plots, 'most recent 30 day' plots of day-averaged BLANkET data, plots of the most-recent 3-days of 10-minute-resolution data, and tables of current data.
Yesterday's data from Latrobe air station
The plots below show PM10 and PM2.5 indicative data (top) and meteorological data (bottom) measured yesterday at Latrobe. The day-average measurements are shown in the boxes to the right of the plots below.
We thank the Latrobe council for use of the site for this station.
Historical data
Data for this station for other time intervals (including previous years) can be accessed from the Historical BLANkET Data page.
Please Note: if network connectivity has prevented remote access to the station the plot will show the most recently available complete day of data.
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