{"id":812495,"date":"2026-07-19T16:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812495\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:55:11","slug":"region-air-quality-warning-now-lifted-now-considered-low-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812495\/","title":{"rendered":"Region air quality warning now lifted, now considered &#8220;low risk&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Canada <a href=\"https:\/\/weather.gc.ca\/en\/location\/index.html?coords=43.451,-80.488\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">has lifted its air quality warning<\/a> shortly after 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The warning has been in effect since early in the week, when smoke from the northwestern Ontario forest fires began travelling south as far as the northern United States. The air quality rating on Environment Canada\u2019s scale maxed out at 10+ (meaning very high risk), and returned to that rating as late as Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>After a full day of regression of the smoky conditions, the yellow warning has now been lifted completely.<\/p>\n<p>As of 11:30 a.m. Sunday, the live rating on Environment Canada\u2019s scale is now reported as 2, representing \u201clow risk\u201d conditions. This falls well below the forecasted maximums of up to a 4 rating from Environment Canada\u2019s predictive index posted this morning. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"792\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AirQuality1130.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4190923\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Current air quality rating for Waterloo Region according to Environment Canada<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"948\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AirQualityForecast-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4190924\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Projected air quality maximums for July 19 and 20, according to Environment Canada<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lioapplications.lrc.gov.on.ca\/ForestFireInformationMap\/index.html?viewer=FFIM.FFIM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ministry of Natural Resources\u2019 live fire map<\/a>, there are currently still 181 active blazes throughout the province.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Kitchener as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=kitchener.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778322800_456_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment Canada has lifted its air quality warning shortly after 10:00 a.m. Sunday morning. The warning has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-812495","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\/812495","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=812495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}