New Yorkers are being urged to stay indoors, limit outdoor activity, and even postpone routine activities such as dog walks as a dangerous combination of extreme heat and Canadian wildfire smoke pushes air pollution to unhealthy levels across the state.
An Air Quality Health Advisory remains in effect across New York after smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada drifted southward, blanketing parts of the state in haze and driving up concentrations of fine particulate pollution known as PM2.5.
The National Weather Service (NWS) has warned that the smoky conditions are arriving at the same time as a heat wave that has pushed temperatures close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit and heat index values above 100 in parts of the New York City region…