Alberta wildfire smoke is impacting air quality all the way to eastern U.S.
Global News
U.S. National Weather Service offices across the U.S. interior began issuing alerts Friday and continued to advise residents about lingering smoke through the weekend.
Smoke from the wildfires in Alberta and northern British Columbia has blanketed several U.S. states, impacting air quality and visibility as far east as New York and as far south as North Carolina.
The U.S. National Weather Service (NWS) offices across the U.S. interior began issuing alerts Friday and continued to advise residents about lingering smoke through the weekend.
By Monday, some of those accounts appeared to recognize the toll days of air quality warnings and reduced visibility alerts were having.
“You may be tired of hearing this, but thick smoke aloft … will continue to stream across the region today into tonight,” the NWS Twitter account for Sioux Falls, South Dakota, posted Monday morning.
“Sick of the smoke? We definitely are,” said a Sunday tweet from NWS Salt Lake City, Utah, advising smoke would linger through Monday before potentially dissipating on Tuesday.
As of Monday afternoon, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Quality Index showed parts of eastern South Dakota, southeastern Montana and northeastern Wyoming were experiencing unhealthy air quality.