With over 100 active wildfires burning in Canada, wildfire smoke has drifted across the border into the United States, prompting Minnesota officials to issue the state's first air quality alert of 2024. In the U.S., smoke from the Canadian wildfires has reached states from Montana to Wisconsin, but was especially heavy in Minnesota on Sunday. Minnesota's air quality alert was issued Sunday and will remain in place through Monday. New York City topped the list of the world's worst air quality rankings by a landslide, according to IQ Air. Smoke from Canadian wildfires reaches US, Minnesota under air quality alert originally appeared on abcnews.go.com

Source: ABC News May 13, 2024 16:39 UTC