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The Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued an air quality advisory for Tuesday and Wednesday because of smoke coming into the region from wildfires further north in California and Oregon.
Parts of the Midwest are seeing unhealthy air quality this weekend, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Montana and the Dakotas. It can be most dangerous for kids, older people and other sensitive groups.
BALTIMORE, MD—The Maryland Department of the Environment has issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Wednesday, June 28, 2023 in the Baltimore area. A Code Orange Air Quality Alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for sensitive groups. Sensitive groups include children, people suffering from asthma, heart disease or other lung diseases and the … Continue reading "Code Orange Air Quality Alert issued for Wednesday in Baltimore"
There has been a lot of talk about air quality levels as nearly the entire tri-state area has been engulfed by smoke coming down from wildfires in Canada. But what do all the numbers actually mean? The number that has been used most often is Air Quality Index (AQI), which reached “hazardous” levels on Wednesday. By 4 p.m. the AQI…
A Code Orange Air Quality alert remains in effect for the Philadelphia area through Wednesday due to smoke from Canadian wildfires causing hazy and smoky conditions throughout the region.
Canada is experiencing one of the worst starts to its wildfire season ever recorded.
An air quality alert continues into Monday morning in the Twin Cities metro area plus additional portions of eastern Minnesota and western Wisconsin. We have alert details, plus a look at rain chances and temperatures for the next few days.