half a mile, this is due to hundreds of wildfires burning across canada. you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. major airports issuing temporary ground stop with 5400 delays, only a handful cancelled or delayed so far. carley: president biden is sending 600 firefighters to help control the blaze. janice dean is here with more. janice: it was scary yesterday, especially across areas that do not see this type of smoke in the area. on social media, people were like, welcome to our world, janice dean, where we have wildfires every single year. yesterday worst air quality on record, 436, that scale goes up to 500. previous record was back in 1981, it was a crazy day, new york, of course air quality south of us in philadelphia is worse right now. take a look at what we were dealing with yesterday. very unhealthy from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. and bringing that trend downward. i m having problems with my maps. ta
not going outside, it is too dangerous. conditions will improve friday and saturday, here is the air quality. you can see the unhealthy air for delmarva, pennsylvania, new jersey, upstate new york. we are improving in the new york city area. when you see the hazardous area and the unhealthy areas for millions of folks across philadelphia, up to scranton and washington, d.c. area, this is dangerous situation, especially the elderly and those with respiratory conditions, take care of those folks. not only i-95 corridor, we are focusing on that because of images we had from yesterday. part of the great lakes, as well. columbus toward wilmington, dealing with smoke from canada. we have been showing this, from cloudy skies to eerie orange, it
fairly ugly rush hour across the i-70 area. then from d.c. up to philadelphia, you will start to get snow tonight after dark, philadelphia. you will get 18 inches between philadelphia and baltimore. south of d.c., it is all rain. snow in richmond. they have been pounded this year with snow, and this is a rain event for you and i know it is starting out as snow, but the warm air will come up and melt all of it. 15 inches is a good number. wow. and look at, in this is 15 in d.c. in this pink area, and look to west, and all of the way back into west virginia, snowshoe mountain is all 20 inches or more. some 20-inch totals may sneak east of there. all right. let s see what it looks like in d.c. and reynolds is there. are you there on the mall, reynolds? you got me? right here in the mall, ali. and chad, absolutely. got you loud and clear, ali. there is a reason that chad
down. it s the rain/snow mix, when you look at it you can see through the snow you know when you make the snowball and water comes out, that s the snow for d.c. the snowball fight snow. yeah. be careful who you hit, because it s going to be a very heavy snowball. and watch when you re shoveling, we call it heart attack snow, because you don t realize how heavy and how much snow you re moving. the first 15 inches of snow will only measure up to be 6 because it s not fluffy, it will be colder and then it will pile on top. a foot and half for d.c. and maybe more for baltimore, front royal, charlotte sville, back to the i-81 corridor and harrisburg, up to scranton, 1 inch. up to new york city, 3 inches. it s a fine line between ugly and not so bad. if you need to get up, get north of it. get on an acela train. amtrak stopped one line going south of d.c. i think we got pictures of charlottesville, virginia, this is our tower cam.