Americans told to stay indoors in 5 states

[Brenda]

On Wednesday, residents in Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Kansas contended with potentially hazardous air pollution levels, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) real-time air quality map.

EPA mapping showed high concentration levels of fine particulates, also known as PM2.5 across a portion of central Kansas, western Minnesota, northwest South Dakota, a large portion of North Dakota, and Northeast Montana.

The worst affected state was North Dakota, with the EPA map showing a central swath of the state marked under "very unhealthy" air quality levels.

This is a developing story and will be updated shortly.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/americans-told-to-stay-indoors-in-5-states/ar-AA1Gw5Ip?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ENTPHB&cvid=b77ab13bb8cc4dd1a0afe16079bfdf77&ei=7

[maxsolomon]

1. Wildfires in Canada

In case anyone was wondering how this article could fail to mention the reason.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. It's a problem, but there are no wildfires in the US?

[Brenda]

4. Yes there are some in the US, too.

But things are so fucked up right now my first thought when I read the headline was, "Oh shit, Chump's trying to keep people from leaving their homes!"

I hate him so fucking much.

[maxsolomon]

5. the smoke is drifting down from CA

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

the western US has a couple wildfires but not compared to the ones in northern BC. the smoke is blanketing Europe, too.

[Moostache]

3. Wait....didn't Elon fire EPA with everyone else? (n/t)

[Lovie777]

6. I would not put it pass this fucked up...

administration. shithole is so insecure and totally insane. Birthday bash I hope for the failure.

Evil sob.

[justaprogressive]

7. A site to keep aware of this ongoing problem...

https://fire.airnow.gov/?aqi_v=1&m_ids=&pa_ids=158651#

[Xavier Breath]

8. Even down south a bit, here in Ohio, we're seeing the effects.

The local news had a shot of the city last night during the weather segment, and with the sun and haze it looked like a pic of Los Angeles in the late afternoon on a day in the '80s.

[milestogo]

9. Oh, I thought this was a curfew thing.