Wildfire Smoke Prompts Air Quality Alerts in Ontario
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Wildfires scorching several Canadian provinces have driven at least 33,400 people from their homes, with smoke now reaching all the way to Europe.
More than 200 wildfires are raging across Canada, sending a thick blanket of choking smoke through the U.S. Midwest. Experts says climate change means U.S. residents better get used to it.
An air quality index of 300 or higher is considered hazardous, and the record-breaking smoke AQI in Grand Portage reached 800 on Tuesday.
Drivers traveling over Michigan's Mackinac Bridge on Wednesday may experience a haze. However, officials say it is not fog but smoke.
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Mississippi can expect hazy skies, lower air quality when double whammy of Saharan dust and smoke from wildfires in Canada sweep in. What to know
The pull of the foul air to Northern California was significant enough that the Bay Area Air District issued an air quality advisory. According to AirNow, a federal air-quality measuring app that measures air quality in real time, the air quality at 2 p.m. through much of the region was only moderately healthy.
States across the border issued air advisories about particulate pollution that are expected to last for several days.
A Chicago Air Quality Alert has been extended through Friday as smoke from Canada wildfires has pushed the AQI into unhealthy levels across the region.