Environment Canada is, as of 3 p.m. Friday, forecasting air quality risk maximums of level three, or low risk, through to Saturday night.
Environment Canada has advising people to check the Air Quality Health Index as wildfire smoke blanketed large swaths of Canada. Even without wildfires, the index can be a useful tool to monitor air pollution in a community on any given day.
Environment Canada, in consultation with Health Canada, has different recommendations for people especially at risk of suffering health problems when exposed to poor air quality versus the general population. “Wildfires happen every year and as long as there are wildfires they will be producing smoke. And, when they are producing smoke, it is our job as meteorologists to monitor where that smoke is going because of the effect on air quality.
“It’s just that the smoke didn’t, in the past, make it down to where the major population centres are. This week, because of the weather patterns, was affected.Article content
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