North-eastern states remain under air pollution alerts though ‘some improvement’ as number of fires in Canada reduces slightly
A favorable shift in weather brought temporary reprieve from Canadian wildfires, but experts caution that decades of changes to the climate – and human actions in the forest – have primed the country’s forests to keep burning.
More than 43,000 sq km have burned so far this year, making 2023 the second-worst year for fires on record – a milestone from 2014 probably eclipsed this weekend.On Thursday night the Biden administration postponed a planned LGBTQ+ event at the White House, while public schools in New York City and Philadelphia implementedon Friday. Smoke affected the air quality as far south as North Carolina, while fires still blazed, many out of control, across swaths of Canada.
“Northwesterly flow around a low pressure system over the Northeast will continue the flow of smoke over the region, but should relax and eventually shift to more of a westerly direction on Saturday.”
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