'Today's horribly smoky day in the Eastern U.S.'
A massive cloud of wildfire smoke seen funnelled toward the U.S. Northeast by a an area of low pressure above the Atlantic Ocean.
The U.S. Northeast woke up to a"horribly smoky day" on Wednesday , as a low-pressure system funnels toxic smoke from wildfires in Canada across the Atlantic Coast. GOES East, but plentiful eyewitness reports of the smoke have also cropped up on social media since Tuesday afternoon . sun surrounded by a neon-bright orange halo Tuesday evening, explaining that the sight is more dangerous than mesmerizing.
"Many will think that this is a nice sunset but in reality this is a toxic sunset as it indicates the presence of tiny particles in the atmosphere and in the breathable air," Papathanasiou saidThe U.S. weather satellite GOES East observes toxic smoke from Canadian wildfires spread across the U.S. Northeast.
NASA researcher Ryan Stauffer said that concentrations of tiny ash particles in the atmosphere — the so-called PM 2.5s — in New York, Philadelphia and other cities in the region will likely hit record highs on Wednesday.
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