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From mental health impacts to heightened risk of infections, recent studies underscore the myriad ways in which smoke exposure affects our health.
For days, KTIV has alerted you on-air and online about the affects the Canadian Wildfire smoke is having on Siouxland. As you watch coverage on KTIV, the First Alert weather team prepares viewers for what they may see while outdoors.
Anyone who has experienced wildfire smoke knows how it can leave you with a scratchy throat, stinging eyes and impact your lungs. However, smoke can also affect your brain. Tiny airborne pollutants found in smoke have been linked to increased risk of stroke, dementia and flare-ups in neurological diseases like multiple sclerosis (MS).
Ozone levels and wildfire smoke are expected to worsen the air quality on Wednesday in Allegan, Kent, Muskegon, Ottawa and Van Buren counties.
It's rained in Boston for 12 Saturdays in a row. WBZ-TV meteorologists Jacob Wycoff and Terry Eliasen take a look at the forecast for this weekend and discuss the Canadian wildfire smoke affecting air quality in Massachusetts.
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FOX6 News Milwaukee on MSNCanada wildfire smoke; Wisconsin braces for more, what you need to knowAn upper-level low pressure system will draw south another thick plume of smoke from Canada. This will create another round of more hazy skies by Tuesday, June 10.
More than 200 wildfires are blazing across Canada, forcing 27,000 people to evacuate and creating hazardous air quality all over the U.S.
Aspen officials aim to have crews on the scene within five minutes — something they say would be nearly impossible without precise location data the AI technology gives.