{"id":36744,"date":"2023-10-03T18:47:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T22:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=36744"},"modified":"2023-10-03T18:47:40","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T22:47:40","slug":"florida-inundated-with-unhealthy-wildfire-smoke-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/10\/03\/florida-inundated-with-unhealthy-wildfire-smoke-from-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida inundated with unhealthy wildfire smoke from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Floridians are experiencing unhealthy air quality and a smoggy atmosphere Tuesday due to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/florida-air-quality-canadian-wildfire-smoke\">Canadian wildfire smoke<\/a>&nbsp;making its way into the American Southeast and Florida peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FL-oct-3.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36745\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Satellite image of Florida, Oct. 3, 2023. (Image\/National Weather Service)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fires continued to burn in Canada throughout&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxweather.com\/weather-news\/canada-increased-wildfire-forecast-bad-air-quality-us-fall\">September<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FOX Weather reported that wildfire smoke can typically drift into the continental U.S. and cause air quality degradations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gispub.epa.gov\/airnow\/?showgreencontours=false\">AirNow<\/a>, the wildfire smoke has been sweeping across Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of Tuesday afternoon, those from Palm Coast down to Coral Springs and Naples are receiving the worst of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Impacts are present in the entire state. Jacksonville to Tampa is seeing moderate effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Good morning east central Florida! Did you notice the obscured sunrise this morning? Believe it or not, it was caused by the smoke from recent wildfires in Canada. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/flwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#flwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sunrise?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sunrise<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/eastcentralFL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#eastcentralFL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9M6DPXcHA5\">pic.twitter.com\/9M6DPXcHA5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; NWS Melbourne (@NWSMelbourne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSMelbourne\/status\/1709184697371427183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floridians are experiencing unhealthy air quality and a smoggy atmosphere Tuesday due to&nbsp;Canadian wildfire smoke&nbsp;making its way into the American Southeast and Florida peninsula. Fires continued to burn in Canada&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[694],"tags":[6202],"class_list":["post-36744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-by-o","tag-florida-inundated-with-unhealthy-wildfire-smoke-from-canada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}