{"id":768800,"date":"2026-07-17T18:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/768800\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:59:10","slug":"wildfire-smoke-will-linger-and-spread-this-weekend-see-which-cities-are-most-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/768800\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke will linger and spread this weekend. See which cities are most affected."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MYU3YCGVLNBHTO7AAEU4R5XFPE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Huge amounts of wildfire smoke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2026\/07\/16\/wildfire-smoke-will-worsen-northeast-mid-atlantic-through-friday\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/weather\/2026\/07\/16\/wildfire-smoke-will-worsen-northeast-mid-atlantic-through-friday\/\">continued to pour<\/a> into the United States from Canada early Friday as Detroit, Chicago and D.C. topped the list of the world\u2019s most polluted major cities.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"DGR2YBIZJRGUBNSB4SOI66V2X4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The smoky conditions drifted into Baltimore and D.C. overnight, creating very unhealthy air quality with index values of 281 and 247, respectively, as of 6 a.m. Eastern time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huge amounts of wildfire smoke continued to pour into the United States from Canada early Friday as Detroit,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-768800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}