Smoke from western wildfires reaches New York area
Smoke from the western wildfires has reached the New York area.
NEW YORK - New Yorkers noticed a haze lingering over the city on Tuesday. One Upper East Side resident said he saw a yellow-orange tinge to the sunlight around 1 p.m.
"The atmosphere is just choked with smoke from fires out in the western U.S. and Canada. The sky is full of smoke and it's restricting visibility horizontally down here near the surface of the earth," Dr. Dave Robinson, the New Jersey state climatologist at Rutgers University, told FOX 5 NY. "If we get some rain that will help clean out the sky here in the mid-Atlantic states if the circulating winds from west to east shift position."