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Haze from Canadian fires to stick around through midweek

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Smoky haze from Canadian wildfires continues to cover most of West Virginia and will likely continue to do so through midweek.

National Weather Service Meteorologist Megan Kiebler said the fires are in Quebec and Nova Scotia and the smoke from them are covering most of the state.

“It’s being lofted up into the air and following our jetstream and currently that’s situated from north to south and that’s bringing it into West Virginia,” Kiebler said Tuesday during an appearance on MetroNews “Talkline.”

Kiebler said the haze can be seen as far as Maine and as far west as the Great Lakes region. She expects it to be around in West Virginia at least through Wednesday.

“We have a cold front down from the north and that’s going to push down everything and we’re going to see some showers as well and that should help disperse some of the smoke in the air,” Kiebler said.

Unfortunately it doesn’t look like the cold front will produce much rain and the dry conditions will continue, Kiebler said.

“It actually looks pretty moisture-starved so we’re really looking at maybe some isolated pockets of rain with very little accumulations with it so we’ll remain in this dry pattern through the end of the workweek,” she said.

High temperatures in West Virginia Tuesday afternoon were topping out near 80 degrees.

 





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