{"id":243624,"date":"2026-07-15T02:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243624\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T02:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:54:08","slug":"hazy-smoke-expected-to-reach-nepa-wednesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/243624\/","title":{"rendered":"Hazy smoke expected to reach NEPA Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCRANTON<\/p>\n<p>Hazy smoke from Canadian wildfires could create visibility challenges and cause health issues for sensitive groups as it rolls into Northeast Pennsylvania on Wednesday, said Bryan Greenblatt, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Greenblatt noted the fires erupted across southcentral Canada on Monday and the wind pattern is bringing the smoke southward into the northeast.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Wednesday, the smoke should begin moving closer to the surface, he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a higher concentration across New York, but even across Northeast Pennsylvania, especially during the afternoon, you could see smoke starting to move in,\u201d Greenblatt said.<\/p>\n<p>Greenblatt expects the smoke to linger throughout Thursday, and possibly longer depending on the wind direction.<\/p>\n<p>While some people may be impacted, Greenblatt stressed the air quality likely won\u2019t be as poor as in June 2023 when the sky turned orange.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON Hazy smoke from Canadian wildfires could create visibility challenges and cause health issues for sensitive groups as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,802],"class_list":["post-243624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-cvc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}