Tag: air quality alerts
Parts of the Midwest are seeing unhealthy air quality this weekend, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana and the Dakotas. It can be most dangerous for kids, older people and other sensitive groups.
Wildfire smoke has forced Twin Cities parks and schools to cancel some outdoor programs this summer.
The skies in Pittsburgh became consumed by the smoke early Wednesday morning.
More than 19 million acres of land have burned across Canada since the start of the year, marking the country's worst wildfire season on record.
A plume of smoke and soot stretches for thousands of miles from the province of Quebec province across the Atlantic Ocean, as seen in satellite images from NASA.
New York will see rain and possible thunderstorms. Texas will see high temperatures. What to know about Monday’s weather forecast.
More than 400 wildfires were burning across Canada on Monday, June 5, with 249 of the blazes still considered to be out of control, Canada’s Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair said.Satellite footage provided by the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere shows wildfire smoke spreading down into northeastern United States on June 5.Steven Guilbeault, Canada’s environment and climate change minister, has described this year as “already … one of the worst wildfire seasons on record.” Credit: CIRA via Storyful
The state declared an Air Pollution Action Day on Monday, warning air quality could be unhealthy for sensitive groups throughout the day.