The National Weather Service said winds were continuing to bring smoke from the fires into the U.S. on Saturday, causing "moderate" to "unhealthy" air quality across the U.S. Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Ohio Valley and Midwest. For many areas, however, that marked improvements from earlier in...
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...
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, ...
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 ...
Air Quality Alerts were issued, and health officials warned people across the area to limit time outdoors and wear a high-quality mask if that wasn’t possible. The wildfire smoke even reached the Albany area on Sunday after a change in wind direction allowed for it to drift off to the no...
VANCOUVER — Smoke from wildfires in British Columbia, Washington and Idaho has wafted east, prompting air quality advisories from Vancouver Island into Alberta. Environment Canada is maintaining advisories for a portion of northeast B.C.
The U.S. Northeast is currently smothered in smoke, as Canadian wildfires rage in what may be its worst fire year yet. This has sent air quality plummeting, with residents donning N95 masks and staying indoors in order to reduce how much of the dangerous smoke they're inhaling. But ...
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?
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 southern Appalachian mountains and a strong southwest wind. The winds are blowing the smoke into our ...