smoke, Minnesota and wildfires
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Minnesota faces an air quality alert due to wildfire smoke, with a mix of smoky skies and potential thunderstorms forecasted.
Minnesota is in a perfect position for overhead auroras, but the smoke will be key to how much visibility there is. All of Minnesota is in an air quality alert due to smoke from Canadian wildfires flowing through the sky, and some of the smoke will reach near the surface.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz says the recovery effort is now underway amid the weekslong fight to contain several wildfires near the Arrowhead region, but warned "they will not be the last of this summer."
Wildfire smoke is causing deteriorating air quality and hazy conditions in the Chicago area, with an air quality alert issued.
As of 8 a.m. Monday, all evacuation zones around the Camp House and Jenkins Creek fires are longer active in St. Louis and Lake counties.
Northland wildfire smoke will make for a hot and hazy start to the weekend. Smoke is one of the two main stories this weekend — and possibly next week too. Air quality will be impacted severely on Saturday — more so than Friday— as most of the state is under Red Air Quality Alerts, which will remain in effect until 6 p.m. Monday.
According to forecasters at AccuWeather, cities where smoke is expected to become thick enough to be noticeable include Fargo, North Dakota; Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota; Green Bay and Milwaukee; and Chicago, Illinois. Additionally, high-altitude wildfire smoke may be visible as far southeast as Detroit and Indianapolis.
The largest of the three wildfires burning in northeastern Minnesota was likely caused by people. In an update Wednesday, the U.S. Forest Service’s Eastern Area Incident Management Team said the
The National Incident Management Organization is now fighting both the Jenkins Creek and new Horse River fires.
Good Friday evening and happy weekend to one and all!If you looked up today and noticed a gray, milky sky, you weren’t seeing clouds. What you saw was wildfire smoke—thick, high-altitude smoke drifting in from fires burning across Canada.