Hundreds ofwildfiresburning across the westernU.S.andCanadaare spewing dense smoke that is being carried hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away through the Plains andMidwest, all the way to theNortheast. The smoke is, at best, leading to hazy skies across wide swaths of the nation and, ...
For several days, parts of the Midwest and Northeast have been seeing unhealthy levels of smoke, with Detroit, Chicago and New York Cityexperiencing some of the worst air qualityin the world, according toIQAir,which monitors the air quality index around the world. On Saturday, the air quality...
CBS Baltimore said early Thursday that, "Todays air quality will be far worse than yesterday as the bulk of smoke from the Eastern Canada wildfires is pushed into the Mid-Atlantic. The pictures we saw from New York City yesterday could easily be our view today." People watch the sunset as...
This morning, there are posts all over social media complaining about a smoky smell and hazy skies. Per theNational Weather Service office in Binghamton: "Smoky skies today across central NY and much of northeast PA. If you smell a little smoke today it is from fires in the central and so...
Major cities in the Northeast also have been advised to keep an eye on their local air quality index and prepare to protect themselves, as smoke is expected to affect parts of the region this week. As Americans throughout the Northeast peer out their windows to what some are comparing to ...
Such is the case for many in the air filtration industry who are unfortunate enough to find themselves in areas where air quality is jeopardized by wildfire smoke. While generally considered to be an issue that those living in the Western half of the United States deal with every year, vast...
Canadian wildfire smoke is infiltrating the Midwest on Tuesday, and the air in Chicago has deteriorated to the Air Quality Index's "very unhealthy" category.
For example, when we withheld the northeast most portion of the study area from the dataset, which has less frequent wildfire than much of the rest of the region, the relationship between annual biomass and wildfire probability was stronger (Additional file 1: Fig. S3), and, consequently, ...
Minnesota has been hit with more smoke from the Canada wildfires. How does breathing in wildfire smoke compare to smoking?
Smoke reaching the northeastern United States from Canada in 2023 from firesraging in western Canadahas mostly arrived at fairly high altitudes. But since the fires in Quebec are relatively close to the northeast U.S., a much larger proportion of the smoke arrived in surface-level air. Around...