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Dead Pine Forests Fuel Canadian Wildfires
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2:33Now PlayingRob Carolan, Bloomberg Meteorologist, discusses the wildfires burning in Canada and why it seems like the frequency of these fires has increased in recent years.
Wildfire smoke from blazes burning in the Canadian prairie has drifted across New York and Chicago, contributing to air-quality alerts that warn of breathing problems for children and older adults.
Environmental agencies in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Maine issued safety advisories that are in effect from 11 a.m. local time Wednesday into late evening. The smoke is visible across the region as a high haze and has already blanketed the US Midwest, including Minneapolis and Chicago.
Chicago’s air quality index — which rises as pollution intensifies — reached 124 Wednesday, which is considered unhealthy for sensitive groups, including people with asthma. Illinois officials have declared an “air pollution action day,” advising all residents to limit outdoor activity through Thursday night to avoid breathing ash and fine particles from wildfire smoke.
New York’s AQI is expected to reach 108 on Wednesday due to an uptick in ozone, a respiratory irritant, at street level. People with lung diseases and asthma are most likely to feel the effects.
Safety alerts in New York and the Northeast are mostly linked to urban pollution, but the smoke will contribute to a dip in air quality in the coming days, said Joe Wegman, a meteorologist at the US Weather Prediction Center. Smoke is expected to remain visible in the sky until rain arrives later in the week, he added.
In addition to the Midwest and eastern US, the smoke from the fires has caused air quality to drop to unhealthy levels in parts of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, where fires are burning, according to AirNow.gov.
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