The burning season started early in Canada, but that does not mean a swifter end. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW YORK – This week is just the beginning of what could be a long, smoke-filled summer in North America – and the start of a new seasonal pattern made possible by climate change.
June is often the worst month, said Dr Brendan Rogers, a scientist at the Woodwell Climate Research Centre in Massachusetts who studies boreal forest fires. Canada is seeing snow that melts out faster in the spring, he said, allowing for an earlier start to the burning season.
The resulting thick plumes of smoke pouring south into the US North-east has created some of the worst concentrations of air pollution in the region since 1999, according to AccuWeather. Air quality alerts in the US stretched as far west as Indiana and Michigan and as far south as South Carolina.Tuesday was the third-worst day of wildfire pollution in US history, according to Stanford University’s Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab.worst air quality of any major city on Earth.
It can “make anyone sick”, the agency warned, but people with asthma, pulmonary or heart disease, or who are pregnant, young or elderly are especially vulnerable. Changes to the climate have put more energy into the atmosphere, which means severe lightning storms are happening much further north.
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