Canada’s historic wildfire season is raging on and is about twice as bad any other season on record, the Copernicus Climate Service of the European Union announced Thursday.
A more favorable weather pattern for quelling fires has established in the east in recent weeks, significantly lowering the risk in much of Quebec and eastward.
The high risk is driven by a heat dome — or zone of high pressure over western Canada — which is forecast to persist for much of the next week, resulting in above-average temperatures and little rainfall. Conditions are expected to remain similar or become more favorable for fires over the next two weeks in the west,Smoke incursions into the Lower 48 remain a risk
At the start of the last week of July, a smaller plume of smoke lowered air quality in the Great Lakes region, delivering unhealthy Code Orange to occasional Code Red conditions in Michigan. Since then, smoke has entered the Lower 48 mostly at higher altitudes, only slightly lowering air quality closer to the ground.bathed the full Sturgeon moon in red lightLooking ahead, while a little haze continues across the Northeast and Great Lakes regions, thicker smoke remains near the U.S.
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