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Canadian officials are utilizing one term to encapsulate Canada’s fiery season: record-breaking.
The wildfires continue to engulf huge portions of Canada, establishing this as the nation’s most disastrous season of wildfires in terms of acreage burned. It has also once again dispersed billows of dense smoke over great distances, this time extending from the Great Lakes to the East Coast.
Numerous cities are being heavily affected, with Toronto, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Detroit recording some of the highest particulate levels in the world.
Doug Gillham, a meteorologist and manager at the forecast center for Canada’s Weather Network, previously predicted that the smoke responsible for historically low air quality levels in early June would not be the final round to afflict the East Coast. He was correct.
Air quality levels “will unlikely be to the extent, the severity, of what we’ve already seen. But smoke’s still going to be up there,” Gillham revealed to The Washington Post.
The smoke from the fires has drifted thousands of miles across the Atlantic Ocean and is harming air quality in Portugal, France, Ireland, and other parts of Europe.
Air quality alerts extend from the Great Lakes to New York and down to North Carolina, where air quality levels range from moderate to hazardous for everyone. In Medina County, Ohio, the Air Quality Index exceeded 310.
Here’s what you need to know.
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