Screenshots from luftdaten.info alle the New Year's Eve long. Maximum pollution at 00:25, clean air next morning. Some 5,000 tons finedust in one night

1. Finedust Germany
New Year’s Eve 2018
Night from 31st of December 2018 to 1st of January 2019
Wolfgang Ksoll
Source http://luftdaten.info
Startpoint http://berlin.maps.luftdaten.info/#6/51.034/9.327

2. 15:50

3. 16:30

4. 17:30

5. 19:00

6. 20:00

7. 21:00

8. 22:00

9. 23:00

10. 23:50

11. 00:25

12. 01:00

13. 02:00

14. 03:00

15. 05:00

16. 06:45

17. 08:30

18. 10:40

19. Findings
• The pollution is increasing all the evening with climax at 00:25
• Düsseldorf and Ruhr Valley start pollution in the afternoon
• At16:30 Berlin is still green
• Hamburg is not that dirty as in the year before
• Highest values at 00:25
• Server is very slow in the night: a lot of people are watching the data in real time
• In the next morning at 10:40 air is not clean again as in the year before at 8:00
• See also:
Roughly 4,500 tons of finedust emitted (10% less than last year?)
• 15% of finedust emissions in street traffic
• 2,25 % of all finedust emissions (coal and wood burning, ships, cars, etc.)
https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/themen/dicke-luft-jahreswechsel (German)
• For New Years Eve 2017 (Silvester) see
http://wk-blog.wolfgang-ksoll.de/2018/01/06/open-data-feinstaub-silvester-2017neujahr-2018/
Wolfgang Ksoll, woksoll@gmx.de