Canadian Wildfire Smoke Reaches New Areas in the Southern U.S.

Smoke from wildfires in Canada that pushed deep into the United States this week has reached new areas in the South, including in North Carolina and Georgia, that had mostly escaped the toxic drift blowing in from the fires in June, officials said.

“Horrific up here!” Merry Miller Weis, a 70-year-old resident in the Western North Carolina mountains, wrote in an email to state climate scientists. “The mountains aren’t even visible. This is the absolute worst since the beginning of the Canadian fires.”

In June, heavy smoke from fires in the Canadian province of Quebec wafted toward the East Coast, enveloped […]

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