{"id":44325,"date":"2025-08-04T10:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44325\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T10:15:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T10:15:16","slug":"air-quality-advisory-for-ottawa-area-to-last-until-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44325\/","title":{"rendered":"Air quality advisory for Ottawa area to last until Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ottawa and the wider area will be experiencing poor air quality due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/bc-wildfires-1.7599568\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smoke from forest fires<\/a> this weekend, Environment Canada says.<\/p>\n<p>The special weather statement was issued at 10:48 a.m. Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The agency&#8217;s weather forecast says the city may see smoke arrive\u00a0Saturday afternoon and it could last\u00a0until Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The air quality statement comes as the city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/first-ironman-competition-will-close-major-roads-this-weekend-1.7597574\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hosts its first Ironman triathlon\u00a0Sunday<\/a>, with hundreds of racers expected to participate.<\/p>\n<p>For the latest conditions and the map of affected areas,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/?alertTableFilterProv=ON&amp;center=45.84135388,-77.31962324&amp;zoom=10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0weather agency adds that smoke may persist for much of the weekend for parts of southern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The smoke may pose health risks, Environment Canada said, advising people in affected areas to limit time outdoors and to consider rescheduling outdoor activities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ottawa was placed under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/ottawa\/air-quality-warning-for-wildfire-smoke-lifted-for-ottawa-1.7597881\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another air quality advisory earlier this week<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa and the wider area will be experiencing poor air quality due to smoke from forest fires this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-44325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}