Summer Of Smoke: Canadian Meteorologists Adjust To Forecasting Smoke Clouds As Wildfires Rage

By Jonah Kaplan, CBS Minnesota

August 2, 2023

WINNIPEG, MB, CANADA -- It's been bad in Minneapolis, bad in Chicago, and bad in New York.

It's been worse, however, for our neighbors in Canada.

"I can't help but think about it every so often. What's it doing, what are the long-term effects," Wolf Schnittker, an Ontario resident visiting Winnipeg, told WCCO News. "There will be four days in a row where air quality is poor. Then we might get a break, and then it comes again."

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