Wildfire Updates: Smoke Pushes Air Quality to
Dangerous Levels for Millions
Upper Midwest. Officials encouraged residents, including in New York, to stay indoors.
Officials and health experts expressed growing concern on Thursday about dangerously
poor air quality across much of the northeastern United States and southern Canada,
as a cloud of dense smoke from scores of raging wildfires darkened skies and irritated
throats from the Great Lakes to New England.
Residents of some of the region’s most populated cities were urged to stay indoors or,
if they did go out, to avoid spending too much time in the polluted air. And as the
wildfires continued to burn, sensors that monitor the air quality index for millions
of people recorded figures sometimes nearly twice as high as what is considered
hazardous.
Screenshots from NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/16/weather/canada-wildfire-smoke-air-quality#heres-the-latest
* Air quality: Air is considered hazardous when the quality index — which measures the density of five pollutants — tops 300. On Thursday, Toledo, Milwaukee and Detroit were among the places with A.Q.I. levels over 500. Read more ›
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what in the world are they burning?
2 comments:
In my neck of the woods, Thursday was absolutely terrible. Friday was much better. Shabbat morning was fine, but Shabbat afternoon, I smelled the smoke again. It's supposed to last throughout the week here unfortunately.
Yes, I read how Chicago and surrounding areas were heavily impacted by the TOXIC smoke. One has to be extremely careful not to breathe in that TOXIC smoke, maybe even wearing a special mask to protect one's lungs. SAKANAH!!!
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