Air Quality

The tri-state area, along with most of the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions, continues to choke under prolonged exposure to the dense smoke filtering in from Quebec, Canada this week.  It is the result of a “perfect storm” of phenomena coming together in the wrong place and at the wrong time. First, there are the fires themselves. They are producing copious…

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Firefighters across the tri-state are responding to at least half a dozen fires responsible for filling the skies with smoke and worsening air quality. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports. 

There’s a bit of good news for our air quality after millions woke up Saturday morning surprised to find a troubling amount of smoke in the air around the New York City metro area. A health advisory was in place through the end of Sunday for people in and around New York City following worsening air quality conditions thanks...

Latest Forecast From Storm Team 4

Latest Forecast From Storm Team 4

Temperatures are heating up. And Friday is all about the sticky, sweaty, and stormy weather. After a relatively quiet morning and early afternoon, tri-state weather started to become unsettled from during the late afternoon, and is expected to stay that way through the early evening. When you step outside, you’ll be able to feel the stickiness in the air. ...

Latest Forecast From Storm Team 4

If you’re wondering if the air in the tri-state looks a little hazy, it’s not your imagination.  An air quality health advisory is in effect Tuesday for New York City and the lower Hudson Valley, as well as western Connecticut and northern New Jersey, meaning it may not be safe for people with some conditions to be outside long....

Latest Forecast From Storm Team 4

Latest Forecast From Storm Team 4

Latest Forecast From Storm Team 4

Latest Forecast From Storm Team 4

Latest Forecast From Storm Team 4

The New York City area will be getting some summer-like feels over the next few days — and skies may look like they did a few times throughout the summer as well, as haze returns Monday from the wildfires burning in Canada

The Bay Area’s poor air quality is adding an extra twist to the San Francisco 49ers’ home opener in Santa Clara Thursday night.

The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for smog despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health.

Three studies show smoke from Canadian wildfires led to a spike in people with asthma visiting emergency rooms in the United States. A doctor in New Jersey says there was a flood of calls from asthmatics during the heaviest days of smoke that shrouded the Northeast with an orange haze in late spring. One study showed asthma-associated ER visits across...

As the Canadian wildfire smoke returns to the tri-state area, Andrew Siff reports on how people are coping with the air.