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Roadside reflector posts8/27/2023 “The West has always burned, as has Canada, but what’s important now is that we’re getting these massive amounts of smoke in a very populated region, so many, many people are getting affected,” said Loretta Mickley, the co-leader of Harvard University’s Atmospheric Chemistry Modeling Group.įueled by an unusually dry and warm period in spring, the Canadian fire season that is just getting started could well become the worst on record. So what’s the big deal about the smoke out East? Officials have opened smoke shelters for people who are homeless or who might not have access to clean indoor air. The hazardous air has sometimes forced children, older adults and people with asthma and other respiratory conditions to stay indoors for weeks at a time. Since 2017, California has seen eight of its 10 largest wildfires and six of the most destructive. West Coast, where residents were buying masks and air filters even before the coronavirus pandemic and have become accustomed to checking air quality daily in summertime. Such conditions are nothing new - indeed, increasingly frequent - on the U.S. Local officials urged people to stay indoors as much as possible and wear face masks when they venture out. Environmental Protection Agency’s air-pollution scale. The fires sent plumes of fine particulate matter as far away as North Carolina and northern Europe and parked clumps of air rated unhealthy or worse over the heavily populated Eastern Seaboard.Īt points this week, air quality in places including New York, the nation’s most populous city, nearly hit the top of the U.S. The conditions sent asthma sufferers to hospitals, delayed flights, postponed ballgames and even pushed back a White House Pride Month celebration. Millions of residents could see that for themselves Thursday. “This is something that we, as the eastern side of the country, need to take quite seriously.” “This is kind of an astounding event” but likely to become more common amid global warming, said Justin Mankin, a Dartmouth College geography professor and climate scientist. East Coast, but it was a reminder of conditions routinely troubling the country’s West - and a wake-up call about the future, scientists say. NEW YORK (AP) - Images of smoke obscuring the New York skyline and the Washington Monument this week have given the world a new picture of the perils of wildfire, far from where blazes regularly turn skies into hazardous haze.Ī third day of unhealthy air from Canadian wildfires may have been an unnerving novelty for millions of people on the U.S.
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