Unhealthy air quality from Canadian wildfires plagues Midwest and Northeast
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Via: perrie-halpern • last year • 45 commentsBy: Rebecca Cohen and Christine Rapp
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An air quality advisory was sent out to New Yorkers for Monday, when smoke from wildfires in Canada is expected to reach the state.
Unhealthy air quality conditions continued in the Upper Midwest and Northeast on Sunday afternoon, with the worst of it in eastern Wisconsin and Michigan.
Alerts were in effect for nine states Sunday and included the cities of Minneapolis, Chicago and Detroit, as well as Syracuse and Buffalo in New York and Burlington, Vermont.
The smoke will make its way to New York City on Monday. The state Department of Environmental Conservation sent an alert Sunday warning of unhealthy air for some people.
The air quality index is expected to be between 101 and 150, which is known as Level Orange and is unhealthy for sensitive groups and may be unhealthy for those sensitive to air pollution, the alert said.
Those groups include adults over 65 and children younger than 14, people who are pregnant, outdoor workers and those with medical conditions like heart or lung disease, or those with respiratory issues like asthma. Sensitive groups should manage outdoor activities and monitor for symptoms related to air quality.
Healthy individuals should not be strongly affected by the air quality, the alert said.
Heat and flooding elsewhere
Flood alerts are in place for 13 million people in the Southeast including in Atlanta and the Florida cities of Jacksonville and Tallahassee through Monday.
Slow-moving storms are dumping 2 to 5 inches of rain over the area, with up to 8 inches possible in some places.
In the High Plains, from Colorado through West Texas, 1 million people were at risk for very large hail and damaging wind gusts Sunday afternoon.
Heat alerts are in effect for 14 million in the Southwest, Texas and Miami, where heat indexes were predicted to top 105 to 109 degrees. In Arizona and California, the heat indexes could reach 110 to 115 degrees.
The heat alerts in the Southwest will remain in effect through Friday.
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It's a gift from Canada provided with thanks for all the unjust tariffs and taunting from your leader who has been trying to rule the world.
Evening... absolutely..gotta love the caring and sharing up there...
It's a bit like when we smoke out the Kiwi's across the ditch....we to are known for our generosity...
The gift that just keeps on giving..😁
Those tariffs were and are justified. May they stay in place for another century.
I'm not going to repeat yet again the reasons why they are not, but these days I'm not so happy with Canada's present government anyway because of Carney's decision to approve a Palestinian State. As well, he's being a pussy about the tariffs, and now I'm sorry that I broke my more than 40 year streak of voting conservative to vote for him.
I can't really fault anyone voting the way they did. Trump shot his mouth off and practically insured a Carney victory.
As for the leaders who want to recognize a Palestinian state, they need to tell us where that state should be. Do they want it to be right on top of Israel with its tiny footprint in the Middle East?
Israel's Arab neighbors total land mass is 700 times the size of Israel. If they want to advocate for a Palestinian state, maybe it should be on Arab land
Funny that countries like Egypt want no part of the Palestinians.
I nominate the French riviera....
And I nominate Quebec. They’ll fit right in.
nah , i want a bigger water obstacle in place
Good point but that won’t help much the next time we get another border policy sieve Dem president. Keep your friends close but you enemies closer.
That's why I thought Antarctica would be perfect. With the amount of global warming, there should be land free of ice soon for crops and grazing, and besides, UNRWA will continue to spoonfeed them anyway.
You want them THAT close to the USA.
It's an expensive bit of payback. Canada is going to be losing out to equatorial jungles.
Yes, indeed, in the carbon offset market, money does grow on trees.
Think of it as lumber being sent to the USA free of charge, that will create jobs in the USA for people capable of reconstituting it
A hazy excuse for lack of a proper woody? Those Saskatchewan beavers won't be satisfied with that.
At least the Minnesota mosquitoes are less active, so thanks for that. And our forest based carbon offsets are intact. Care to buy some?
Can't afford the tariff.
As the smoke is washed out over the US the farmers are already reconstituting it as it fertilizes our crops. And BTW tariff free.
Nunavut and Manitoba are burning to the ground. Especially Nunavut. Sunny day Sunday flying in from Philly to TVC and vis was below three miles. All due to the smoke.
Was driving between Bad Axe (aka: Naughty Hatchet) and Ludington, moving trucks and trailers all day Sunday, you couldn't see much of the wind farm in the thumb, like you said, just the ones within 3 miles. Closer to Ludington you could see about 10 miles. Last night the sun went down almost 1/2 hour early due to the smoke blocking it at the horizon and the the moon was barely visible during the day and was orange most of the night. This morning, due to a heavy dew and a light rain, some of the smoke has been washed out and the sky is blue again except near the horizon.
Revenge...thy name is Canada
Wild hair warning : incoming conspiracy theory starting .
the wild fires are to bump up the price of Canadian lumber . supply and demand you know .
and any day now , trump will order all the windmills pointed north to blow that stuff back across the border .
Use the windmills as huge fans? LOL That would take a lot of power, wouldn't it?
Now Buzz , you understand im just having fun right ?
besides if those windmills are such a green power producer , they should be able to pay for their own power usage right ?
I think that would be 20 - 30 years out at best. They have to still pay for all the fossil fuel needed to construct them and keep them operating.
SHHHHH!!! we dont talk about those hidden costs .
You could reverse the rotation direction of all the windfarms in America. Or get a mass of people together to fart towards Canada.
I have thought of that , i was going to caculate how much baked beans it would take to make it effective , but gave up .
we could take over the phrase , the thunder from down under if we did though . i would have to call the cousins in nova scotia and ask them if they smell popcorn ..... my grandkids fall for that one each time , and the dogs hide and the cats act like they are hacking up hairballs .
LOL
By windmills you must mean the Blowhard in Chief and his cadre of windsocks.
It always amazes me the way some liberal pea-brains work. I live in an area affected by the smoke from Canadian fires. It’s bad and it’s affecting folks with respiratory issues to the point of being life taking dangerous and yet some joke about how the US somehow deserves it for this reason or that.
Those folks can kiss my lily white ass …. In perpetuity….
Oh, my, that is so sad. Ever heard of karma?.
See 3.0 above. Apply liberally, lather, rinse and repeat as necessary.
Imagine a reply a member could be banned from this site for posting.
Imagine a reply which reinforces the concept of not giving a shit.
Mrs. Gee and I were watching some old Colombo reruns from the 70s recently and the smoke in the air over Los Angeles looked a lot worse than the picture for this article. This was normal back then. I lived down there for a while in 77 and 78. It's not nearly that bad anymore even though there are nearly twice as many cars here than back then. This is because of environmental regulations. They really do work. Roll back environmental regs on car at your own peril.
Growing up in L.A. in the 50s and 60s I know for a fact that the air pollution was much worse then than it is now. Much.
You are trying to compare apples and oranges. Smog and wildfire smoke are two very different things. This article is about wildfire smoke. My comments relate to the sophomoric attitude some have towards what it is doing to the US.
If this were the other way around they would be screaming bloody murder. No doubt about it.
Maybe it's payback for the acid rain. Anyway Canadians are too polite to be "screaming bloody murder".
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Maybe that is a ridiculous assertion. Yes I believe it is.
You keep telling yourself that.
We've had a quite a few bad years with Canadian wildfire smoke. This one is particularly bad.
First the Canadians send the bad air down, next they will sell us air scrubbers with a 700% tariff. Our neighbors to the north are a devious bunch
that's funny
Devious to extent, perhaps, but no match for your leader.
I live up in the north far closer to the fires than anyone in the US and it really hasn't been that bad, there have been far worse years than this
Besides forest fires happen not muct can be done about it
Evening Free..yes it is no different to any where else in the world that cop bush fires..
Yes it's smoky, it's uncomfortable, people have breathing difficulties.. and people need to use common sense and stay out of it as much as possible etc...
Give it a few days and wind changes and the smoke is gone..
If you can still see the city sky line it isn't really that bad..when the Sydney Harbour Bridge disappears here then we know it's thick..
I just think of the poor Firies fighting the damn things on the front line and the people, animals etc in it's way...and people complain about abit of smoke hanging around for a few days in the cities...some people need to get a grip..
Stay safe where ever you are and always watch the sky..