Thick smoke has filled the skies in the Northeast, leaving millions with unhealthy air to breathe. Here's why it's happening:
Photos from New York City showed the smoke-covered skies tinting the skyline orange on Tuesday morning.Wildfire smoke in the Northeast from the Canadian province of Alberta during the past few weeks was mainly aloft and didn't affect air quality much, but this situation is different since some of the smoke is traveling near the Earth's surface. The closer the smoke is to the ground the more of an impact it will have on air quality.
Click the play button below to see how the smoke was pushed southward toward the Northeast late Monday.Chris Dolce has been a senior meteorologist with weather.com for over 10 years after beginning his career with The Weather Channel in the early 2000s. The Weather Company’s primary journalistic mission is to report on breaking weather news, the environment and the importance of science to our lives. This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM.
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