“This is not the day to train for a marathon or to do an outside event with your children. New York City's air among the world's worst as Canada wildfire smoke spreads (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Spencer Platt/Getty Images Over 100 wildfires are burning in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and Quebec causing air quality health alerts in New York State and parts of New England.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 06: The Staten Island Ferry moves past the Statue of Liberty on a hazy morning resulting from Canadian wildfires on Jin New York City. “It’s difficulty to predict the movement of the smoke… This is an unpredictable series of events and we cannot provide guidance more than a day in advance at this point.” “While there may be potential for significantly improved conditions by Friday morning, smoke predictability that far out is low,” the mayor cautioned. However, conditions will deteriorate again on Thursday afternoon and evening “as smoke moves back over the city,” Adams said. on Wednesday evening before they temporarily improve later in the night and into Thursday morning, the mayor said. That’s the highest level on record in the city since the 1960s, he said.Īir quality conditions are likely to worsen through 9 p.m.
on Wednesday, which is classified as “hazardous,” Mayor Eric Adams said during a news conference Wednesday. New York City had an AQI of 484 at 5 p.m. As of Wednesday evening, major metro areas such as Philadelphia Jersey City, New Jersey and New Haven, Connecticut, had air quality indexes ranging from 200 to 300 – which is considered “very unhealthy,” according to government website.
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