It’s time to bring out your N95 masks. New York City and much of the eastern United States ended Tuesday in thick orange fog and a pungent smell of wood fires. “Air quality has plummeted across much of the Northeast as smoke from Canada’s wildfires moves south,” the National Weather Service said.
The air quality index, usually well oriented in a city surrounded by water, has in fact deteriorated to the level considered “unhealthy”, according to the AirNow site. A polluted air alert has been issued until Wednesday.
If San Francisco and California, on the west coast of the United States, have already experienced repeated episodes of polluted air in recent years, the situation is totally unusual on the east coast. More than 400 fires are still ongoing in Canada, according to the count of the national agency, and more than 2,200 have been listed since the beginning of the year. They have already burned more than 3.8 million hectares, and major Canadian cities like Ottawa and Montreal are also coughing under “smog”.
“Dry Lightning”
The fires could also reach certain American states. Pennsylvania and New Jersey are particularly at risk these days from “dry lightning” that could ignite fires, the Storm Prediction Center said. The area has been placed on “critical” alert.
From the beginning of May, it was first Alberta in western Canada that was confronted with an unprecedented series of fires. Before they touch the east of the country, in the province of Nova Scotia.
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2023-06-07 03:56:08
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