Air quality

Friday night: Partly cloudy. Low: 64. Saturday: Mostly sunny. Pleasant. High: 81. Sunday: Partly cloudy. Evening rain. High: 79.

Friday night: Partly cloudy. Low: 64. Saturday: Mostly sunny. Pleasant. High: 81. Sunday: Partly cloudy. Evening rain. High: 79.

Friday evening: Smoky sunshine. Temps in the 70s. Overnight: Partly Cloudy. Low: 64. Saturday: Mostly Sunny. Pleasant. High: 81. Sunday: Partly Cloudy. Evening Rain. High: 79.

Wildfire smoke continues to sit in the sky above New England. This is why our sunrises and sunsets have been muted lately. They will continue to be muted, with an orange tint to the sun, through at least Saturday. With the smoke getting so thick, our air quality is “unhealthy” Friday and Saturday. So anyone with respiratory ailments should limit…

Friday  Evening: Smoky sunshine. Temps in the 70s.
Overnight Tonight: Partly Cloudy. Low: 64.
Saturday: Mostly Sunny. Pleasant. High: 81.
Sunday: Partly Cloudy. Evening Rain. High: 79.

A dome of heat will be settling over New England this week, building heat and humidity while affecting air quality. The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection has issued an air quality alert for ground-level ozone until 11 p.m. Tuesday. The alert points out the dual threats facing much of the region: Extreme heat and worsening air quality. These can pose…

Monday evening: Partly Cloudy. Dry. Temps in the low 80s.Overnight: Mild. Partly Cloudy. Low: 67.Tuesday: Hot & Dry. Sunny. High: 92. Wednesday: Hot & Humid. Partly Cloudy. High: 94.

An air quality alert is in place for much of southern New England, including the Boston and Worcester areas, through late Wednesday  over elevated ozone levels.

An air quality alert is in place for much of southern New England through 11 p.m. Wednesday night. The alert was issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in advance of elevated ozone levels. All the areas under the EPA’s alert were far-western Connecticut, central and eastern Massachusetts, southern New Hampshire and higher elevations at Acadia National Park in...

Today (Wednesday): Dry & Sunny. High: 88.
Overnight Tonight: Humid. Low: 65.
Thursday: First Alert Day. Hot. Afternoon Showers & T-Storms. High: 84.
Friday: Warm. Drying Out. High: 81.

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The Bay Area’s poor air quality is adding an extra twist to the San Francisco 49ers’ home opener in Santa Clara Thursday night.

The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for smog despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health.

Our Fourth of July holiday weekend is off to a dry but hazy start at several beaches in Massachusetts, including Duxbury and Nantasket, as the wildfires in Canada continue to generate a lot of smoke. Duxbury Beach operations said on Saturday that the beach had poor visibility due to smoke pouring in from the Canadian wildfires. The haze has come…

As we head into the holiday weekend, you may notice a little more haze in the air. Once again, the wildfires in Canada are generating a lot of smoke. Low- and mid-level winds have been favorable to concentrate the smoke across the Great Lakes down through Pennsylvania and into North Carolina. As a storm system moves across through the Great…

Tonight: Partly cloudy, patchy fog. Lows in the low 60s. Friday: Mostly sunny. Slight chance isolated PM shower or storm. Highs in the 80s. Saturday: Partly sunny. PM showers possible out west. Highs in the low 80s. Sunday: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and storms. High near 80.

Canadian wildfires will send worsening smoky air across the country and neighboring United States in coming days after recent heavy rains in Quebec missed the places where the fires are most active, officials said Wednesday.

There are many health risks that people can face when it comes to wildfire smoke. However, health problems brought on by the dangerous air quality levels are not just limited to humans — our beloved pets face them as well.

Drifting smoke from the ongoing wildfires across Canada is creating curtains of haze and raising air quality concerns throughout the Great Lakes region, and in parts of the central and eastern United States.