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.