When you step outside on Thursday, you will notice smokey air. Matthew Meyers of the National Weather Service in Sioux Falls says it’s due to wildfires in western Canada.
“So what we’re looking at here is, again, with those wildfires in western Canada, we had this stuff aloft today,” Meyers says. “But we’re seeing a second round kind of come through behind this storm chance. Post this front coming through, we’re gonna have more downward motion within the atmosphere, and instead of pushing that smoke aloft, it’s gonna push it to the surface. It’ll be kind of a smoky annoying day.”
Meyers estimates the last time smoke was in our forecast was July of 2021. Patchy smoke is in the forecast through Thursday night.