What Cities From Chicago to Washington, DC, Look Like Under a Blanket of Wildfire Smoke
Hot dogs, beach days, and iced tea on the porch are some of the rites of summer. But in an era of global warming, a new rite has emerged: choking down smoke from wildfires burning hundreds of miles or more away.
The Midwest, Northeast, and parts of Canada have been blitzed with thick smoke that turned skies an eerie shade of orange and triggered widespread air quality alerts. The source? Fires burning in Minnesota as well as western Ontario.
Canada is where the bulk of the fires are burning, with 119 out of control blazes across the country as of Friday afternoon. The fires are burning so intensely that smoke is rising into the atmosphere and getting whisked on the jet stream eastward. That’s how Chicago and Detroit ended up with the worst air quality in the world on Friday. New York and Washington, DC, cracked the top 10...
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