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Hazy skies, poor visibility at some Mass. beaches to start holiday weekend
Our Fourth of July holiday weekend is off to a dry but hazy start at several beaches in Massachusetts, including Duxbury and Nantasket, as the wildfires in Canada continue to generate a lot of smoke. Duxbury Beach operations said on Saturday that the beach had poor visibility due to smoke pouring in from the Canadian wildfires. The haze has come…
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Social media reacts to record-high air quality concerns blanketing Tri-State area
Much of the East Coast is covered by an orange sky, the result of wildfire smoke traveling south from Canada. Here’s what people have to say on social media.
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NYC sees uptick in asthma-related ER visits amid Canadian wildfire smoke
New York health officials say a slight increase in emergency department arrivals began Wednesday, as the skies became an unrecognizable and ominous orange.
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Why didn't Boston get the extremely smoky air that NYC did?
The extremely hazy skies over New York City and other Northeast cities this week have captivated the country as smoke from Canadian wildfires turned the air an ominous orange color. Boston had its own smoky skies on Tuesday, but avoided the almost apocalyptic sights from New York City, where the air quality was rated as hazardous and temporarily the worst…
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Smoke map: When will smoke clear and why is it worse in the afternoon?
The smoke continues to smother the tri-state because of a weather pattern know as an “Omega Block” to meteorologists — here’s what that means and when we can expect the smoke to ultimately clear out
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Air quality map: How much is smoke affecting your town?
Wildfires burning in Canada are sending plumes of smoke south, dramatically worsening the air quality for millions of people this week, including across New England Haze cast a pall on Boston on Tuesday and blanketed New York City on Wednesday, producing some shocking images. Air quality remained bad enough on Wednesday in parts of New England to prompt a poor…
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Air quality alert: Smoke back in New England, from new source
An air quality alert continues from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the southwestern half of New England and much of the Northeast United States as a result of wildfire smoke lingering in the air at low altitudes.
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VIDEO: Band of Wildfire Smoke Visible Behind Boston
The wildfire smoke that’s floated from Nova Scotia, Canada, to southeastern Massachusetts this week was visible near Boston Wednesday morning. That smoke has brought a burning smell to Massachusetts and other parts of New England, and NBC10 Boston’s Sky Ranger took aerial video that showed a band of it miles from Boston, visible behind the city’s skyline. The smoke...
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New Wildfires Make Skies Hazy for Some in New England
Smoke from wildfires in Canada has been visible in New England recently, but it hadn’t affected air quality locally until Tuesday. That’s because the smoke filtering into our air his much lower in the sky than it has been, since it’s coming from a different part of Canada. Before, the haze was generated from wildfires burning in Alberta, in...