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Air quality live updates: New York City has the worst air in the world as smoke from Canadian wildfires rolls in
NYC ranked first among major cities for the worst air quality worldwide today, according to IQAir, a Swiss air monitoring company.
Updated June 7, 2023, 3:42 PM EDT
By NBC News
The smoke from ferocious Canadian wildfires cast a sickly pall over much of the eastern United States today, worsening air quality for millions of people.
About 98 million people in parts of 18 states from New Hampshire to South Carolina were under air quality alerts this morning for both wildfire smoke and ozone.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/unhealthy-air-quality-canada-wildfires-live-updates-rcna88092
( Be careful out there, it is not good. )
zuul
(14,654 posts)zuul
(14,654 posts)Freddie
(9,587 posts)Im a little north of Philly. Sky is a strange shade of white/gray and the sun is trying to shine, and I can smell it. Hasnt rained in weeks either.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)There is nothing to help clamp it down in the air.
Nevilledog
(53,063 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)We are not able to escape climate change.
Terrifying to me too is the forecast keeps saying a chance of rain but it never comes.