Poor Air Quality Due To Canadian Wildfire Smoke
After a recent break from polluted air, another batch of Canadian wildfire smoke sank southward with a cold front on Wednesday, bringing unhealthy to very unhealthy air to the region.

Here's a look at that air quality during the late afternoon hours across the region. Very unhealthy air had been reported across portions of central Minnesota, with unhealthy air stretching from the Red River Valley to the Twin Cities and south-central Minnesota.

Air quality reached the very unhealthy range in St. Cloud during the mid-afternoon hours on Wednesday.

The Twin Cities reached the very unhealthy range at 4 PM.

As the poor air quality will continue, Air Quality Alerts remain in place. In northern Minnesota, these alerts go until Thursday morning. In central and southern Minnesota, they are in place until Friday morning. In western Wisconsin, it's in place through Noon Thursday.
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Smoke Sticks Around Thursday


Smoky and hazy skies will continue to plague the Twin Cities with poor air quality. Morning lows start off in the low 60s with highs in the low 80s.


Especially across central and southern Minnesota, that smoke will stick around in the atmosphere, but cleaner skies should work into northern Minnesota. Highs range from the 60s along the North Shore due to a lake breeze to the low 90s in southwestern Minnesota.