The forecast is for temperatures that feel like 109 degrees (42.8 degrees Celsius) - with 101 degree (38.3 degrees Celsius) heat and stifling humidity. The city had two days of unhealthy air Tuesday and Wednesday, but for Thursday “they’ll get an improvement of air quality with the very hot and humid heat,” said weather prediction center meteorologist Bryan Jackson. Have the sun, moon looked different lately? Blame Canadian wildfire smoke “As long as there’s something to burn, there will be smoke we have to deal with.” “As long as those fires keep burning up there, that’s going to be a problem for us,” Carbin said. “The conditions are not going to be very favorable.” “Pick your poison,” said prediction center forecast operations chief Greg Carbin. Then it created a setup where the only relief comes when low pressure systems roll through, which means areas on one side get smoky air from the north and the other gets sweltering air from the south. That’s because neither the 235 out-of-control Canadian wildfires nor the stuck weather pattern that’s responsible for this mess of meteorological maladies are showing signs of relenting for the next week or longer, according to meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Weather Prediction Center.įirst, the stuck weather pattern made abnormally hot and dry conditions for Canada to burn at off-the-chart record levels. The only break much of America can hope for anytime soon from eye-watering dangerous smoke from fire-struck Canada is brief bouts of shirt-soaking sweltering heat and humidity from a southern heat wave that has already proven deadly, forecasters say.Īnd then the smoke will likely come back to the Midwest and East.
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