“If you look at Western Canada, it’s completely covered by the smoke,” Gerald Cheng, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, said in a media briefing. Edmonton, Alberta, and Saskatoon, Sask., also reported unhealthy air quality, and the haze could remain over parts of both provinces into Wednesday, Cheng said.
In Quebec, where fires sent thick smoke across the US eastern seaboard last week, the situation has improved, but there were still 113 active blazes as of Monday afternoon. That’s down from about 150 late last week. Current wind flows around those provinces are funnelling pollution north. But a low-pressure system is forming over the Great Lakes, and that “is looking to act as a tap to bring more smoke,” said Bob Oravec, a senior branch forecaster at the U.S. Weather Prediction Center. Late spring has been marked by systems that have kept conditions cool and helped push smoke from Quebec’s forests across the urban areas of Canada and the United States.
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