you could just see around the buildings, kind of just haze,” said Shelly Woinowski, who was visiting the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. In Chicago, officials urged young people, older adults and residents with health issues to spend more time indoors. Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources also issued an air quality advisory for the state. Paul, Michigan’s Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy issued an air quality alert for the entire state. In Minnesota, a record 23rd air quality alert was issued Tuesday through late Wednesday night across much of the state, as smoky skies obscured the skylines of Minneapolis and St. The Environmental Protection Agency’s site showed parts of Illinois, lower Michigan and southern Wisconsin had the worst air quality in the U.S., and Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee had air quality categorized as “very unhealthy.” “If there’s any north component to the wind, there’s a chance it’ll be smoky.”ĭrifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada created curtains of haze and raised air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region and in parts of the central and eastern United States. “Until the fires are out, there’s a risk,” said Bryan Jackson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. residents from the Midwest to the Northeast and as far south as Kentucky to brace for more depending on which way the wind blows as Canadian wildfires rage on.
The haze of unhealthy air that settled over Chicago and other Great Lakes cities Tuesday reminded U.S.
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