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Your garden doesn't like the wildfires, either. Here's how to help plants handle smoke and ash
With prolonged exposure, volatile organic compounds found in smoke can affect leaves and other plant parts and disrupt the ability of plants to take up nutrients.
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Air Quality Improving After Historically Bad Thursday
News4’s Dominique Moody explains how the air quality is improving Friday.
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Air quality improves to ‘Code Orange' for DC Area
Air quality in the Washington, D.C., region is improving Friday after the area experienced the worst air quality in the world for a time on Thursday.
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Morning Weather: June 9, 2023
Storm Team4’s Chuck Bell has the latest on the air quality in the region.
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Late Weather, June 8
Storm Team4 Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer has the forecast.
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Social media reacts to record-high air quality concerns blanketing Tri-State area
Much of the East Coast is covered by an orange sky, the result of wildfire smoke traveling south from Canada. Here’s what people have to say on social media.
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Should you run the AC when air quality is bad?
When the air quality is poor outside, is it safe to use your air conditioner? Here’s what doctors say.
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Evening Weather, June 8
Storm Team4 Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer has the forecast.
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Smoky air alters Walt Whitman High School graduation plans
Walt Whitman High School delayed Thursday’s outdoor graduation ceremony several hours because of the air quality and offered an indoor viewing option. News4’s Walter Morris reports.
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NYC sees uptick in asthma-related ER visits amid Canadian wildfire smoke
Hospitals in the city say they’re experiencing a higher than average number of ER visits related to asthma complications and respiratory illnesses after the sudden arrival of wildfire smoke from Canada spiked air quality to “hazardous” levels. A day after the city’s Air Quality Index (AQI) stayed in the “hazardous” level for hours throughout the afternoon and evening, Thursday...
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How the wildfire smoke affects the environment
Science teacher and Storm Team4 Meteorologist Ryan Miller explains how the Canadian wildfire smoke affects the environment.
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Bad air brings back familiar feelings from the pandemic
Bad air caused by Canadian wildfires is having a major impact around D.C., prompting cancellations of Thursday’s Nationals game to outdoor day care to graduations. Northern Virginia Bureau Reporter Drew Wilder reports the smoky haze brought back some familiar feelings from the pandemic.
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Wildfire smoke, common in the West, catches outdoor workers off guard across East Coast
Wildfire smoke is part of life in California and the American West, but it’s an unfamiliar foe in New York City and other East Coast cities.
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Photos: Here's how the DC area looks through wildfire smoke
A blanket of smoke from devastating wildfires in Canada coated D.C. and the Maryland and Virginia suburbs on Wednesday and Thursday. Here’s a look.
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Storm Team4 Forecast: Unhealthy Air Remains in DC Region Thursday
Smoke from the Canadian wildfires continues to keep air quality in the DC region unhealthy. Storm Team4 meteorologist Amelia Draper has the latest forecast.
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Belmont cancels racing and Nationals postpone game due to poor air quality from Canada wildfires
Racing at Belmont Park was canceled and the Washington Nationals’ home game against the Arizona Diamondbacks was postponed Thursday due to poor air quality from wildfires in Canada.
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Smoke map: When will smoke clear and why is it worse in the afternoon?
The smoke continues to smother the tri-state because of a weather pattern know as an “Omega Block” to meteorologists — here’s what that means and when we can expect the smoke to ultimately clear out
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DC area reached the worst air quality in the world Thursday
Code maroon — “hazardous” — air quality put the health of people across the Washington, D.C., area at risk for a time Thursday as smoke from wildfires in Canada grips the region.
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‘Stay inside:' DC official warns of poor air quality, advises N95 masks
Christopher Rodriguez, D.C.’s Director of the Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency, said people should stay inside as much as possible during Thursday’s poor air quality alert.
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Poor air quality causes travel delays, cancels outdoor activities
The thick smoke from Canada’s wildfires continues to impact travel and daily life in the D.C. area. News4’s Juliana Valencia reports from Reagan National Airport.