unfortunately it is going to remain hot. in fact just get warmer through the course of this coming week. i m drawing this climate change connection because the fire season over the western u.s. are starting earlier and lasting longer. so the fingerprint of climate change is written all over that. one impact that s overlooked is the smoke across the rest of the country. we re talking about the wildfires that are several hundred miles away from the big apple. this was what it looked like on wednesday. look at the smoke and haze there compared to a typical day. they had their worst air quality index in 15 years. that s just incredible. you can see that on the satellite imagery captured on friday across the midwest stretching to the southeast, even though new england and into the mid-atlantic that cleared out, the wildfire smoke is anticipated to drift back into that location as some of that smoke from these billowing fires