{"id":801743,"date":"2026-07-14T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801743\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:30:10","slug":"why-was-the-sky-in-montreal-a-hazy-yellow-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801743\/","title":{"rendered":"Why was the sky in Montreal a hazy yellow this morning?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Smoke from wildfires raging in Ontario and the Northwest Territories were responsible for tinting the sun orange and the skies around Montreal a dull yellow early Tuesday.<\/p>\n

While the phenomenon coincided with a weather system in the Montreal area that could bring severe thunderstorms, <\/a>hail and perhaps even a tornado over the course of the day, there was, in this case, nothing more to the presence of the eerie effect than an unfortunate piece of timing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe orange sun occurs when there are a lot of small particles between you and the sun. In this case, fine smoke particles from\u00a0forest fires in northwestern Quebec and eastern Ontario<\/a>\u00a0have been brought by high altitude winds over us. Combined with the clouds from approaching storms, it gives the clouds this unusual yellowish tint,\u201d explained Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Fabry, associate professor at McGill University\u2019s Bieler\u00a0School of Environment & Department of\u00a0Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, in an email to the Montreal Gazette.<\/p>\n

\"AThe sun looms over La Grande Roue de Montr\u00e9al as an orangish-haze blankets Montreal on July 14, 2026. Evan Buhler \/ Montreal Gazette<\/p>\n

Environment Canada meteorologist Simon Legault noted that wildfires in the Northwest Territories might also be providing some local colour to local skies, but doing so at such altitude local air quality was not affected.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The smoke) stays aloft so, mixed with the clouds there are some particles that alter the light so that we see a light yellowish colour,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not close to the ground so it doesn\u2019t affect the air quality right now\u2026air quality (in the Montreal area) is between good and fair and in most of Quebec.\u201d<\/p>\n

Legault added however that air quality could be affected should the smoke start to drift over the areas at a lower altitude in the days to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoke from wildfires raging in Ontario and the Northwest Territories were responsible for tinting the sun orange and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-801743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801743","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=801743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}