An air quality alert covering the entire state of Minnesota continues on Thursday, marring otherwise fairly ideal weather conditions.
The alert will remain in effect through 5 p.m. on Saturday, with smoke from Canadian wildfires keeping air quality index levels in the unhealthy categories. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has the latest AQI forecasts on its website.
According to IQAir, Minneapolis’ air quality was third-worst among the world’s major cities on Thursday afternoon. Only Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Chicago had worse AQI levels…