The latest forecast predicted that the ground-level haze would hang over Friday.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the NWS issued a similar alert on Wednesday for the Garden State. Air quality has been consistently worse there compared to New York City.
Weather forecasts had also called for rain across the region for much of the remainder of the week, and if that materializes it could counterbalance the influx of smoke by pushing particulate matter out of the air. This is calledWhile wildfires continue to burn in Canada this week, blankets of smoke have plagued the Midwest as well as portions of New York state in the Adirondacks and near Lake Ontario. Those plumes are now moving south toward New York City.
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