Air quality in NYC worst since 1980s — worse than after 9/11: forecaster

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Air quality in NYC worst since 1980s — worse than after 9/11: forecaster
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“It looks like Mars out there,” said Fox Forecast Center Meteorologist Brian Mastro.

“It looks like Mars out there,” said Fox Forecast Center meteorologist Brian Mastro just before 2 p.m.

The city’s air quality index had risen to 353 out of 500 by early afternoon, which is considered “very hazardous” and was the worst recorded since at least the ’80s, he explained.ranked the city’s air quality index as 80% worse than the second-most polluted major world city, Delhi, India.Satellite image shows smoke coverage over New York and Pennsylvania – 2.30pm EST Wednesday, June 7th, 2023.

The air quality index was even worse than after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but fortunately, the air from more than 100 out-of-control wildfires hundreds of miles to the north was not as toxic as the debris cloud from the terror attack, said Mastro. “That was not as widespread, because it came from Lower Manhattan and the wind was blowing it to the south, over Brooklyn, so there wasn’t really anything over the northern parts of Manhattan or anything. Whereas, this is the whole city,” Mastro explained.New York City’s air has been heavily polluted by thick smoke from Canadian wildfires burning hundreds of miles away.

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