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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

All right, today is Thursday, June 8th.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

A dangerous smoky haze has filled the Philadelphia region due to wildfires

burning in Canada. A code red air quality alert remains in effect for the entire Delaware Valley.

Visible satellite shows thick smoke moving through our region. It has reached areas from

Philadelphia on north and continues to press southward. While many areas have been in the red

unhealthy zone, some places in this plume are showing even higher in a very unhealthy zone now.

The reason we are seeing such concentrated smoke has to do with the weather.

So we're actually stuck in between the low pressure east of Maine and high pressure just west of us.

That means the wildfire smoke is being directly funneled through the northeast and into our region.

So it's just this scenario that it all is just getting funneled right to here.

It's a funnel.

A concentrated dose of it all.

They're saying Saturday the air quality should slowly improve, although I feel like that just keeps getting pushed back the day that they're telling us that it's going to be better.

I was watching this morning and they were saying that it is pushing southerly and that by later today,

it will be a bit better here and worse in Delaware.

Oh, okay.

Experts say it's a good time to put off yard work and outdoor exercise.

Yay!

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