Smoke from wildfires in Canada has made its way to Michigan, but the smoky sky might be less noticeable in the next week.
Harold Dippman is a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Gaylord. He said that Canada is getting some precipitation which will lead to the amount of smoke to decrease in the next few weeks.
“It might hang around a bit longer,” Dippman said. “But given the precipitation is starting to fall in Alberta and British Columbia and those fires are probably going to be on the decrease, I would say that the wildfire smoke prevalence is probably going to be on a downward trend here over the next couple weeks.”
The smoke is coming from Alberta and British Columbia, Canada where wildfires have been ravaging through the areas. According to Dippman, the two areas have seen unusually high temperatures that have led to the fires.
“They had high temperatures in Northwestern Alberta in the 90s (degrees) which is pretty anomalous in mid-May,” Dippman said. “Those fires, they got going and that northwest flow pretty much just carried all that smoke straight down to the great lakes region.”
Other than it being noticeable, Dippman said the smoke will not have much effect on people in Michigan. He said that states including Minnesota and Wisconsin are more impacted by the smoke due to air quality problems it has caused.
The smoke will be most noticeable during sunrise and sunset, according to Dippman.