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Fires in Canada caused thick fog on New York on Tuesday, June 6, degrading air quality.
POLLUTION – Impossible to see the top of the buildings as the mist is thick. This Tuesday, June 6 in the early morning, New Yorkers woke up surrounded by black and acrid smoke from multiple forest fires that are ravaging eastern Canada, in particular Quebec and Nova Scotia – located more 1000 km north of the American city.
“Air quality is at an ‘unsafe’ level in New York City today due to wildfire smoke coming from Canada,” warned Lucky Tran, Doctor of Public Health, on his Twitter account, advising residents of “the city that never sleeps” to wear a mask to protect themselves from smoke.
This is what the sunrise over New York looked like today due to wildfire smoke coming over from Canada. Air quality levels are at unhealthy, at over 10 times the guidelines recommended by the WHO. This is the reality of living through the climate crisis.
— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran)
Authorities have even called on people with heart or lung conditions, children, and adults over 65 to stay home. The air at “upstate New York, a small area outside of Pittsburgh, and as far as Columbus, Ohio”is not good to inhale, even for a healthy person, warned the meteorologist of Fox News, Britta Merwin.
New York City covered in thick smoke from the Quebec wildfires this morning! The current Air Quality Index for the city is 158, which is in the “unhealthy” category. #NYwx
— Collin Gross (@CollinGrossWx)
In the American Northeast, the smoke is so heavy that it is visible from space, as you can see in the satellite images below.
🔥 Forest fires in #Canada are causing very poor air quality over a large eastern part of the North American continent. The satellite images are eloquent!
— Etienne Farget 🌩️ (@EtienneFargetMC)
A fiery sun
New Yorkers were also able to notice by raising their eyes to the sky that it was much redder than usual. As shown in the photographs belowtaken by an American photojournalist, the sun, which rises behind downtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building, indeed appears like a ball of fire coming out of the mist.
Maybe the worst air quality New York City has seen in a long time as a smokey haze shrouds the sun as it rises behind midtown Manhattan and the Empire State Building, Tuesday #newyorkcity #nyc #newyork #haze @EmpireStateBldg @agreatbigcity #sunrise
— Gary Hershorn (@GaryHershorn)
This phenomenon is another consequence of the devastating fires in Canada. Indeed, the smoke particles act as a filter, allowing only the longer wavelengths of light to appear, which are orange or red in color, explains the New York weather forecaster.
Canada is in the grip of flames, with 425 active fires, more than half of which are out of control, according to the Canadian Interagency Wildfire Center (CIFFC). So far, the fires have burned nearly 10 million hectares, 17 times the average of the past 20 years. The fires also forced more than 100,000 people to flee their homes. Although the haze will dissipate in the coming days in New York, poor air quality will persist through the end of the week, say meteorologists from Fox News.
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