The mass of smoky air that choked New York, Washington and other U.S. cities earlier this week moderated on Friday as it drifted as far south as the Florida Panhandle, and conditions improved to 'moderate' along most of the Eastern Seabord.
Downtown Washington, D.C. is seen shrouded in haze and smoke caused by wildfires in Canada, in Washington, U.S., June 8, 2023. REUTERS/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades
The haze, emanating from some 400 wildfires burning in Canada - many of them in Quebec province north of New England - was still severe enough on Friday for the weather service to issue air quality alerts for pockets of the Carolinas and elsewhere in the Southeast, as well as in some parts of Texas and Oklahoma.
The weather service issues "Code Orange" alerts when air quality has degraded to a point where it could affect the health of vulnerable people, such as children and the elderly. The weather service said there was a chance of showers and thunderstorms in parts of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. After registering the worst Air Quality Index reading for major global cities for much of the week, New York's AQI on Friday morning was "moderate" at 74, according to IQAir, pushing it out of the top 25.
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