New York Emerges From the Haze as Canadian Wildfire Smoke Moves South
Environment,Wildfires,Air Quality
The skies were clearing over much of the East Coast on Friday, offering a reprieve heading into the weekend after smoke from the Canadian wildfires blanketed major U.S. cities with polluted air.
Air-quality levels in places like New York and Washington, D.C., improved after several days of dangerous conditions that altered air travel and disrupted daily life for millions of people.
The changing picture will bring relief to millions of people who have been choked this week by thick smoke and hazy skies, a situation all too common on the West Coast but one that many Americans on the East Coast hadn’t experienced before. Winds were pushing the smoke both off the coast and toward the South, where the smog was expected to be less heavy, meteorologists said.
