While residents will not see the dramatic, dark yellow haze that suffocated New York City earlier this month, air-quality levels are expected to drop — potentially to “very unhealthy…
Unhealthy air quality is expected to grip New York again this week as winds push in more toxic smoke from the raging Canadian wildfires.
Fox Weather meteorologist Samantha Thomas told The Post that city residents will likely experience “moderate” air-quality levels of between 50 and 100 on Wednesday and Thursday. Big Apple residents may notice hazy skies around sunset, “but it’s not expected to be a very dangerous event,” Thomas said, adding that the smoke will start to clear out of the area by Friday.Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement Tuesday that air-quality health advisories have been issued for western and central New York, as well as the eastern part of Lake Ontario.
In the city, N95-style masks will be available to commuters at major transit hubs such as Penn Station, Grand Central Station and the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan, the Fulton Center and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, Jamaica Center in Queens and the Grand Concourse in the Bronx.The masks will also be available to non-city residents at state-run stockpiles in impacted counties, according to the governor’s office.
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