The smoke is from Forest Fires in Nova Scotia Canada…
It has traveled hundreds of miles and is settling across the North East Coast state’s….
Hundreds of fires raging across Eastern Canada continued to spread clouds of dangerous pollution across much of the eastern United States on Thursday. Officials issued warnings about air quality in a broad swath of the country, from New York west to Indiana and as far south as the Carolinas.
Major cities including Philadelphia, Washington and New York woke up to unhealthy levels of air pollution, one day after New York City registered its worst air quality readings in decades. Although conditions in parts of the Northeast on Thursday were expected to be better than the day before, the noxious air was spreading across a growing part of the country.
The source of the smoke is an outbreak of blazes in eastern Canada, which have forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. About 250 wildfires burned out of control in the eastern part of the country as of early Thursday, the authorities said, about 150 of them in Quebec. Some have been burning for weeks.
Officials in states and provinces on both sides of the border warned of the threat of the smoke, which has forced some people to don masks in a grim reminder of the pandemic conditions of recent years. The smoky haze closed the National Zoo, disrupted flights and forced sudden changes of plans.
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, teenage girls whose commencement ceremony had to be called off took pictures in graduation regalia, though the smoke was too thick to make out the Washington Monument halfway down the National Mall…
image…Pedestrians pass the One World Trade Center, center, amidst a smokey haze from wildfires in Canada, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, in New York. ..Julie Jacobson/AP…