{"id":245095,"date":"2026-07-16T18:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245095\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:43:12","slug":"air-quality-alert-issued-as-canadian-wildfire-smoke-continues-to-impact-pennsylvania-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245095\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Quality alert issued as Canadian wildfire smoke continues to impact Pennsylvania skies"},"content":{"rendered":"

PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 Wildfire smoke from Ontario, Canada and Northern Minnesota will impact Pennsylvania through the end of the work week, resulting in hazy looking skies and an impact on air quality. <\/p>\n

This wildfire smoke will trigger Code Red Air Quality Alerts for Thursday and Code Orange Alerts for Friday. <\/p>\n

These alerts are based on predicted 24-hour averages. Individual hours may see worse\/better air quality. <\/p>\n

This is the first time that a Code Red Air Quality Alert has been issued for our area since June of 2023.<\/p>\n

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Air Quality Forecast (WJAC Severe Weather Team 6)<\/p>\n

The thickest smoke arrived in northern Pennsylvania Thursday morning and will continue to push southward throughout the rest of the day. <\/p>\n

The sky will look hazy as the smoke passes overhead. Residents may also be able to smell the smoke at times.<\/p>\n

If possible, try to limit time outside while these alerts are in effect. A Code Red Air Quality Alert means that the air quality is unhealthy for everyone, especially sensitive groups, including children, older adults, people with heart, lung, or respiratory conditions, and pregnant individuals. <\/p>\n

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Air Quality Alert health symptoms (WJAC Severe Weather Team 6)<\/p>\n

Exposure to this type of air quality could cause adverse health effects for many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 Wildfire smoke from Ontario, Canada and Northern Minnesota will impact Pennsylvania through the end of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-245095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245095","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=245095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}