Hazy, sepia-toned skies from nearly 150 Canadian wildfires are hovering over at least 16 states including Illinois, disrupting daily life and creating hazardous air quality conditions for some. And according to experts, that might not be changing anytime soon.
149 of wildfires are burning across western provinces to Quebec, with 110 of them out of control.
“I can taste the air,” Dr. Ken Strumpf said in a Facebook post from Syracuse, New York, where the sky took on the colorful nickname of the local university: Orange. In Canada, air is circulating counterclockwise around a low pressure system near Nova Scotia. That sends air south over the fires in Quebec. There the air picks up smoke, and then turns east over New York state, carrying smoke to the eastern seaboard.This wind pattern isn’t particularly rare. But the confluence of events is.
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