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I’ve added two air quality links (under weather) to the blogroll at left. One takes you to hourly data for particulate concentrations in the Flathead, the other to Montana’s extensive wildfire and smoke report.
As of 0800 today (the report lags real time by an hour or two), the concentration of fine particulates (≤ 2.5 microns) was approximately 60 micrograms per cubic meter, which translates as “Unhealthy” in all three durational averaging categories. If you live in the Flathead, you know that already as visibility is down to five miles (visibility and health effects breakpoints).
The hourly data page provides links to the data pages for yesterday and previous days. There’s probably a link somewhere for all the data, but as yet I haven’t found it. I have, however, put the Flathead data for the last week into an Excel spreadsheet that you can download.