'Out there somewhere is Philadelphia.' Air quality alerts continue in our region on Thursday. A Code Red is in effect for Delaware. A Code Orange is in effect for Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Air quality alerts are in effect across the Delaware Valley as hazardous air from the Canana wildfires hangs over the region.Air quality alerts are in effect across the Delaware Valley as hazardous smoke from the Canada wildfires hangs over the region.
They also recommend staying inside, keeping your windows and fireplaces shut, and run the air conditioning on a recirculation setting. "You can start feeling chest tightness. You may start coughing and may feel your eyes burning," Bettigole said. As we get into Saturday, that block begins to ease some with low pressure exiting eastward. When this happens, we should begin to dilute the flow of particles and slowly improve air quality.Our next chance of a few showers comes on Friday afternoon and evening, but that doesn't look very impressive.Why are we smelling the smoke?We are stuck in between low pressure out east of Maine with high pressure out west of us.
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