Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tResidual smoke from wildfires in Canada continue to impact the air quality in Western Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Monday. Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Mercer, Washington and Westmoreland counties are included in the alert. The air will be unhealthy for sensitive groups, including children, the elderly and people with underlying conditions. Limit or avoid strenuous outdoor activities.More: Get severe weather alerts for your countyInteractive radar: Track storms as they move through your areaLearn how to enable automatic weather alerts on the WTAE appThe smoke, which originated from fires in Canada, continues to impact much of the Great Lakes states. While not as intense across western PA, the light winds near the surface today along with the smoke that has already moved into the region will help to keep particulate matter levels elevated through the day. You are encouraged to keep a close eye on the AirNow website and app for the current status of air quality in your area. PA DEP will continue to monitor conditions through the day today and will update the forecast for tomorrow if conditions warrant.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Residual smoke from wildfires in Canada continue to impact the air quality in Western Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has issued a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for Monday. <\/p>\n
Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Mercer, Washington and Westmoreland counties are included in the alert. The air will be unhealthy for sensitive groups, including children, the elderly and people with underlying conditions. Limit or avoid strenuous outdoor activities.<\/p>\n
The smoke, which originated from fires in Canada, continues to impact much of the Great Lakes states. While not as intense across western PA, the light winds near the surface today along with the smoke that has already moved into the region will help to keep particulate matter levels elevated through the day. <\/p>\n
You are encouraged to keep a close eye on the AirNow website and app for the current status of air quality in your area. <\/p>\n
PA DEP will continue to monitor conditions through the day today and will update the forecast for tomorrow if conditions warrant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Code Orange Air Quality Alert issued for Western Pennsylvania More smoke arrives and impacts air quality today. Updated:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30257,55935,44806,6095,3027,30287,17452,4329,4771,12934,10654,10744,12932,13202,28,13432,30,29,73,45579,6664,105711,7214,1887,16361],"class_list":["post-247615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-air-quality","tag-air-quality-index","tag-armstrong","tag-beaver","tag-butler","tag-code-orange","tag-condition","tag-day","tag-department-of-environmental-protection","tag-fayette","tag-greene","tag-indiana","tag-lawrence","tag-mercer","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-department","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-severe-weather-alert","tag-smoke","tag-southwestern-pa","tag-today","tag-washington","tag-wildfire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247615","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=247615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"WTAE](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769019068_844_wtae.png\")
<\/p>\n