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Orange warning \u2013 air quality: Calgary smoke hits dangerous levels A red-coloured sunrise on Friday marked the start of another smoky day in Calgary. <\/p>\nCalgarians woke up to extremely poor air quality amid wildfire smoke. Mason DePatie reports. <\/p>\n
A red-coloured sunrise on Friday marked the start of another smoky day in Calgary.<\/p>\n
As of 6:30 a.m., Environment and Climate Change Canada\u2019s (ECCC) air quality health index (AQHI) remained a 10-plus in Calgary, representing a very high health risk. <\/p>\n
Airdrie and several surrounding areas also saw poor air quality.<\/p>\n
The smoke is coming from wildfires burning in British Columbia and Washington state.<\/p>\n
Smoky conditions are expected to persist through Friday and Saturday as the plume gradually moves out of the region.<\/p>\n
Calgary\u2019s AQHI will likely remain high Friday morning, with possible improvement to moderate risk later in the day. <\/p>\n
However, air quality could deteriorate again in the evening. <\/p>\n
Calgary to see smoky, hot weather this weekend Gina Martin has a look at the five-day forecast from the Sky Watch Weather Centre. <\/p>\n
At high and very high AQHI levels, people are advised to reduce or reschedule strenuous outdoor activity. <\/p>\n
Children, seniors, pregnant people and those with heart or lung conditions are considered particularly vulnerable.<\/p>\n
To reduce exposure, ECCC says to keep windows and doors closed, use a high-quality indoor air filter and move outdoor activities indoors. <\/p>\n
Orange warning \u2013 air quality: Calgary smoke hits dangerous levels A red-coloured sunrise on Friday marked the start of another smoky day in Calgary. <\/p>\n
A well-fitted respirator, such as an N95, can provide additional protection when outdoors.<\/p>\n
Symptoms caused by wildfire smoke can include coughing, throat irritation, headaches and shortness of breath.<\/p>\n
Calgary is currently in the middle of a roughly two-week stretch of hot weather, with temperatures expected to reach or approach 30 C on most days.<\/p>\n
The smoke could prevent Calgary from reaching its forecast high of 32 C on Friday by limiting the amount of sunlight reaching the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calgarians woke up to extremely poor air quality amid wildfire smoke. Mason DePatie reports. A red-coloured sunrise on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[712,49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-823335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823335","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=823335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}