The state of Minnesota is coming into one other in an extended string of summer time days marred by air high quality alerts. Poor air high quality will proceed via Saturday with lingering wildfire smoke from Canada.
WCCO meteorologist Joseph Dames says that the upside is that unseasonably nice temperatures have moved in, and can stick round, with highs within the 70s and low humidity.
Which may be small comfort, because the air high quality alert will stay in impact via 5 p.m. on Saturday, with smoke from Canadian wildfires preserving air high quality index ranges within the unhealthy classes. The Minnesota Air pollution Management Company has the latest AQI forecasts on its website.
In line with IQAir, Minneapolis’ air high quality at first of the Friday workday ranked because the second-worst among the world’s major cities on Thursday afternoon. Solely Kinshasa within the Democratic Republic of Congo had worse AQI ranges.
This is likely one of the longest air high quality alerts on report, tying with these issued for St. Louis County in the course of the Greenwood fireplace in 2021, in keeping with the company.
Dames says our nights stay cool, with lows within the 50s and a few patchy morning fog. Just a few weak techniques go to our west early subsequent week, with low rain probabilities restricted to far western Minnesota.
Count on a llight warmup and elevated humidity potential by the tip of subsequent week, with one other likelihood for rain.
