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Canada wildfires shroud New York in haze

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By Peter Hutchison, Cecilia Sanchez and Anne-Sophie Thill

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Makes me reach for my mask and I'm not even in the area. Those poor people on both sides of the border.

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MLB postpones Yankees, Phillies games as Canadian wildfire smoke harms air quality - CBSSports.com

It always has been serious but the canadian fires have really put a damper on basic outings. Can't even enjoy a baseball game now.

Time to send in more American firefighters to get the job done.

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The experts have pointed out these fires can be started by lightning strikes, and caused by direct human interaction such as a hot muffler on a car.

Most of the smoke has left the NY city area by now.

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At one point on Wednesday, the Air Quality Index (AQI) at NYC was very near bottom, scored 484 out of 500 (the higher the number, the worse it is). Anything over 200 is unhealthy

The smoke would continue till the weekend, though with a bit improved AQI score. Masks are being given away for free like back during the Covid era

(Though anti-maskers would say that the masks are useless and would probably refuse to wear them)

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The city has become the Big Yellow Apple!

New York has to be #1 in everything.

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"It smells like someone is doing a barbecue," said Nicha Suaittiyanon, a 30-year-old tourist to New York City from Thailand, who complained of "watery and itchy" eyes.

So a backyard barbecue. Canada just can’t shake off that image.

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I visited PQ in July 2019, visiting Gatineau (close to Ottawa), Montreal and Quebec City, then driving all the way through the province and reentering the US and exploring New England and its delights.

I probably wouldn't even be allowed into all that right now, pandemic or no. Not to mention there's all the smoke coming from Alberta and BC provinces in western Canada.

This past weekend's full moon is the 'Strawberry Moon' which comes from the calendar that Algonquin-speaking Native Americans used. The monthly moon name denotes strawberry gathering time but the moon was barely visible and appeared a very soft glowing reddish-pink. And this was no lunar eclipse either. I've seen it that way once at Lake Tahoe after California forest fires brought a horizontal layer of smoke into the sky there.

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