{"id":245196,"date":"2026-07-16T20:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245196\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:45:08","slug":"wildfire-smoke-in-pennsylvania-see-the-smoky-view-of-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245196\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke in Pennsylvania: See the smoky view of Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThursday is a Severe Weather Alert Day because of the air quality in Western Pennsylvania.The WTAE Action Cam showed thick smoke over Downtown Pittsburgh. The city was barely visible on the camera from Mount Washington.See the video aboveA statewide Code Red air quality alert was issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection due to smoke drifting in from wildfires in Canada and Minnesota.In some northern counties, the air quality alert was upgraded to Code Purple.The alert came as temperatures neared 90 degrees on a hot and humid day in Pittsburgh.Download the WTAE app to stay connected with breaking news. Sign up for our email newsletters to get breaking news in your inbox.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Thursday is a Severe Weather Alert Day because of the air quality in Western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>The WTAE Action Cam showed thick smoke over Downtown Pittsburgh. The city was barely visible on the camera from Mount Washington.<\/p>\n<p>See the video above<\/p>\n<p>A statewide Code Red air quality alert was issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection due to smoke drifting in from wildfires in Canada and Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>In some northern counties, the air quality alert was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/pennsylvania-code-red-air-quality-wildfire-smoke\/72029824\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">upgraded to Code Purple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The alert came as temperatures neared 90 degrees on a hot and humid day in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/article\/get-pittsburgh-s-action-news-4-on-the-go-wtae\/44045498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Download the WTAE app<\/a> to stay connected with breaking news. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtae.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up for our email newsletters<\/a> to get breaking news in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday is a Severe Weather Alert Day because of the air quality in Western Pennsylvania.The WTAE Action Cam&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30257,3765,79,99223,3798,104977,7391,7525,139,28,30,29,73,6664,104976,3522,1419,88713,102476],"class_list":["post-245196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-air-quality","tag-canada","tag-city","tag-code-red","tag-download","tag-humid-day","tag-minnesota","tag-mount-washington","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-smoke","tag-smoky-view","tag-thursday","tag-western-pennsylvania","tag-wildfire-smoke","tag-wtae-action-cam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245196","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=245196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}