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Smoky Skies, Poor Air Quality Now Affecting Nearly Entire Region: Check Conditions In Your Area
Check conditions for Saturday, July 1, and the updated day-by-day forecast through July 4th here.
As smoke from Canadian wildfires moves eastward, poor air quality is now affecting nearly the entire region and most of the Northeast.
In the first image above, areas in red are projected to have very unhealthy air quality, orange unhealthy, and yellow moderate on Friday, June 30, which will be mainly clear with a high temperature in the low 80s, according to AirNow.gov.
How much sunshine there is will depend on the amount of haze from the smoke.
To check air quality in your zip code, vi…
Covid-19: 49 New Deaths Reported In CT; Some Towns Already Cancel Memorial Day, July 4th Events
There were 49 deaths in Connecticut related to the novel coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
That brings the total number of fatalities during the pandemic to 326 in the state, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Wednesday afternoon, April 8.
There have now been 1,400 hospitalizations, with 110 more since Tuesday, April 7.
Since Friday, March 13, there have been 302,000 unemployment claims submitted. That's two years of normal claim activity, in less than one month.
The Department of Labor has quadrupled the amount of staff processing claims, working overtime and weekends, but the backlog is st…
