{"id":810852,"date":"2026-07-18T21:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810852\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T21:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T21:15:08","slug":"poor-air-blankets-much-of-eastern-ontario-saturday-afternoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/810852\/","title":{"rendered":"Poor air blankets much of eastern Ontario Saturday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>A wide swath of eastern Ontario is once again suffering from poor air quality as smoky haze blankets the region.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada is warning that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/thunder-bay\/northwestern-ontario-new-fires-9.7275405\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">smoke from wildfires in northwestern Ontario<\/a> could cause concerns with both air quality and visibility throughout Saturday afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p>As of 3 p.m., Saturday, downtown Ottawa and Kingston were both at a 9 on the Air Quality Health Index scale, which ranges from 1 to 10+. <\/p>\n<p>Cornwall surpassed both cities and was sitting at 10 on the scale.<\/p>\n<p>All three communities are forecasted to drop to a low-risk 2 by Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Belleville&#8217;s air quality by mid-Saturday afternoon was at a 5 on the scale, but was expected to rise to 8 later in the afternoon to evening. <\/p>\n<p>Air quality conditions and visibility can rapidly change every hour and create significant differences over small areas, Environment Canada said.<\/p>\n<p>People may experience eye, nose and throat irritation, the agency said, as well as coughing or wheezing.<\/p>\n<p>Environment Canada suggests people keep their windows and doors shut to limit smoke from getting inside their homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-810852","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\/810852","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=810852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}