Canada's Wildfires Cover US Skies in Smoky Haze

New York City woke to an orange glow on Tuesday with the sun obscured by a thick blanket of unhealthy smoke drifting south from Canadian wildfires.

Hazy air blown in from distant fires has become a recurring phenomenon in New York over recent years, although mostly later in the summertime as wildfires spike out west. Government forecasters called the sooty scene across the city on Tuesday a “highly unusual scenario,” pulling in smoke from wildfires to the north in Canada. Wildfire seasons around the world are expected to become longer and cover more territory as global temperatures rise, raising the risk of impacts reaching places far from the burning.

Smokey conditions are drifting across North America as Canada experiences an unprecedented amount of pre-summer fire activity. “May was a record warm month across Canada,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California Los Angeles. While wildfire season peaks at different times across Canada, Swain said this spring is unusual as fires have been burning from British Columbia along the Pacific to Nova Scotia on the Atlantic.

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