Parts of southern Florida had "unhealthy" air quality levels on Tuesday as Canadian wildfire smoke drifted over the state.
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The downpour and heavy humidity may be gone, but smoke from Canadian wildfires is again on the way to NYC and is pushing up the air quality index. 
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New York; Washington, D.C.; Montreal; and Toronto have some of the worst air quality in the world.
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Wildfires emit large amounts of smoke containing harmful pollutants that can drift for hundreds or thousands of miles away from their source, as shown by this summer's Canadian wildfires, which created air quality problems as far afield as New York City.
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This article originally appeared in Insider NJ.Canada is on fire. The smog fallout downwind has set off air quality alerts for 13 states south of the border with the worst air quality currently being reported in upstate New York from Syracuse to Binghamton.
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Wildfire smoke is a mixture of air pollutants of which particulate matter is the principal public health threat. Although a large population can be exposed to smoke during a wildfire event, most healthy adults and children will recover quickly from wildfire smoke exposure.
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Massive wildfires in Canada have already spewed out twice the smoke emissions than the previous whole-year record, the EU's climate monitor said Thursday, with the blazes expected to continue to scorch their way through forests for weeks or even months.
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Finally, some rain. We were pleased to see the unfamiliar sight of water falling from the Midwest skies in recent days. For one thing, it can only help to clear out the smoke from Canadian wildfires that has cast a pall over Chicago and created a serious health emergency.
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Smoke from Canada's wildfires in Ontario and Québec has dipped south again, causing air quality alerts for more than 80 million in the U.S.
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A former tobacco lobbyist-turned-Fox News contributor bucked health experts by claiming on air that smoke billowing over the Northeast from Canadian wildfires will do people no harm.
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The downpours did help firefighters battle Northern California's McKinney Fire. But hot, dry and windy weather could hamper continuing efforts, and California is primed for continuing intense wildfire activity.
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