PHOTOS: If the skyline in NYC has looked milky-gray to you this week, that’s from high-in-the-sky smoke haze.
Smoke from the severe and devastating wildfires that are raging over much of the West Coast have blown thousands of miles east, this week reaching New York. “Widespread haze is likely today in NYC, as a plume of wildfire smoke from Western US wildfires moves overhead,” New York Metro Weather tweeted.
Jet-stream winds are moving the swath of smoke from fires across the atmosphere to New York and the New England area.
“The smoke will remain elevated between 15,000 and 20,000 feet above our heads,” said New York Metro Weather, stressing that ground-level air quality effects will be limited for New Yorkers.