Weeks after dangerous air choked the Northeast, residents of several major cities in the Midwest — including Chicago, Detroit and Indianapolis — were urged to stay indoors today as smoke again blanketed large parts of the country.
The air across much of the region experienced a sharp increase in potentially harmful pollutants, with the air quality indexes reaching well into the “very unhealthy” category.
In Cincinnati, officials told residents to limit their time outside; in Cleveland, public pools were closed; and in Chicago, the skyline disappeared into the smog.
The smoke is the result of one of Canada’s worst wildfire seasons in decades.
“We are only in June and it is not even peak wildfire season yet, so we can expect to see a lot more smoke affecting our lives in the United States throughout the summer,” my colleague Julie Bosman, who reported today from Chicago, told me.
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