Around 150 wildfires are burning across northern Alberta and British Columbia, pouring wildfire smoke across western Canada that is carrying south into the United States along the upper-level winds. Smoke has reached into the Pacific Northwest, northern Plains and even into the Mississippi Valley. ...
As a result; the air quality is so bad, the NWS has rated it unhealthy and put out an alert encouraging people to stay inside. Inhaling toxic smoke and ash from wildfires can cause eye, lung, or threat irritation, along with causing asthma attacks and breathing problems. The smoke can al...
Photos:New York City skyline nearly disappears amid Canadian wildfire Air Quality Alert Maps, satellite images show Canadian wildfire smoke enveloping U.S. East Coast as air quality deteriorates The New York Yankees' game against the Chicago White Sox was rescheduled as part of a doubleheader sta...
PHILADELPHIA-The Phillies Wednesday night game against the Detroit Tigers has been postponed due to smoke from Canadian wildfires that has compromised air quality and visibility along the east coast. The series finally will be played Thursday night at 6:05 p.m., which was conveniently the nex...
There are also 48 evacuation alerts impacting 18,720 people and 9,359 properties. An evacuation alert means that residents could be ordered to evacuate at a moment's notice. All week, a heavy layer of smoke has hung over Metro Vancouver and most other parts of the province, blocking out ...
It's also more difficult to alert the public to the danger, he adds. "These things could now happen at any time," Brolund says of nighttime flare-ups. "We have to be able to respond to these fires around the clock." The researchers also developed models to explore ...
now, I don’t believe any structures are being threatened, so they’re just mopping up the other two big fires,” he said. “Hopefully we get through the next couple days and it stays relatively quiet, but there’s a lot of air assets ready to go, so everybody’s o...
A recent review of 24 years of atmospheric measurements of unPACs in air at Alert on northern Ellesmere Island concluded no significant decline of PACs had occurred (Yu et al., 2019). 4.5.2. Sediments and surface waters Several studies investigated PACs in Canadian Arctic continental shelf and...
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