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Wildfire smoke creating poor air quality

Air quality gets worse Thursday
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BALTIMORE — A northwest wind has brought back wildfire smoke to our area. Here is a look at a map of the wildfire smoke in our region:

Air Quality

The thickest smoke is over the Midwest, but with our northwest wind, a piece of that is being pulled into our area.

As of Wednesday afternoon most of Maryland is seeing moderate air quality.

Air Quality

This means that the air will be harmful to sensitive groups. Try to limit time outside if you can.

Forecast smoke

Thursday will likely see another round of smoke with a code red expected. This means that air quality will be worse than Wednesday.

Code red

This will make for red sunrises and sunsets like you see below.

Red sunset