This message from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy: The Action Day Advisory for Sunday, July 16th is a Statewide Alert. Smoke originating from wildfires in west and central Canada will be moving in from the northwest Saturday into Sunday. As this happens, increases in PM2.5 concentrations are expected across the Upper […]
All counties are under an Air Quality Alert today (Tue.) because of smoke from Canadian wildfires in Quebec and Ontario. The smoke will turn our blue sky a whitish-gray and dim the sun, especially at sunrise and sunset. They say: “ THE MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, GREAT LAKES, AND ENERGY HAS DECLARED TODAY, TUESDAY […]
Today – May 31 – has been declared a Clean Air Action Day. This includes the lakeshore counties, plus Kent, Kalamazoo and St. Joseph Counties. A Clean Air Action Day has also been called for Southeast Michigan, including Detroit, Flint and Ann Arbor. This is also a Clean Air Action Day for the lakeshore counties […]