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Connecticut air quality today

Updated · LIVE · 2 metros tracked

Across the 2 Connecticut metros we measure, air is worst right now in Hartford at AQI 34 (Good) and cleanest in Bridgeport at AQI 30.

Every Connecticut metro we track

#MetroAQIUV nowDominant
1 Hartfordno page yet 34Good 5.9 PM2.5
2 Bridgeportno page yet 30Good 5.3 PM2.5

Sun over Connecticut today

The strongest UV in Connecticut today is 6.4 (High) in Hartford, arriving around 12pm local time. The mildest of the 2 metros we model here peaks at 5.9 in Bridgeport.

6.4 Hartford 12pm5.9 Bridgeport 12pm

UV is modelled, not measured — unlike the AQI above it, which comes off an instrument. How we handle UV →

What stands behind these Connecticut numbers

2 of the 2 metros here report from a named regulatory monitor — Bridgeport, Hartford. The dominant pollutant across Connecticut today is PM2.5.

We track 2 metropolitan areas in Connecticut, not the whole state, and none of them has its own page yet — a metro page ships only after thirty days of our own history, and that clock is running. There is no state-wide average here on purpose: averaging 2 metros into one figure would invent a value for all the ground between them. How we measure, and what we refuse to estimate →

Neighbouring states

Smoke and inversions do not stop at a state line, so when Connecticut looks wrong the answer is often next door.

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