Air Quality in NYC Worst Since 1980s — Worse Than After 9/11: Forecaster
New York City’s air quality was the worst since at least the 1980s Wednesday afternoon, as thick wildfire smoke blowing down from Canada dimmed the city into an orange haze.
“It looks like Mars out there,” said Fox Forecast Center meteorologist Brian Mastro just before 2 p.m.
The city’s air quality index had risen to 353 out of 500 by early afternoon, which is considered “very hazardous” and was the worst recorded since at least the ’80s, he explained.
Around 2:30 p.m., the air quality ranking site IQair.com ranked the city’s air quality index as 80% worse than the second-most polluted major world city, Delhi, India.
On a normal day in New York, the air index is about 100. (Read more from “Air Quality in NYC Worst Since 1980s — Worse Than After 9/11: Forecaster” HERE)
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