New York City is among the cities covered in smoke from Canadian wildfires.
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It's not an Instagram filter. The skies really are that yellow.Smoke from more than 800 active wildfires burning across Canada drifted hundreds of miles across North America this week, blanketing cities in a thick haze.Across the Northeast and Midwest, including New York City, Minneapolis, and Chicago, as well as Canadian cities such as Toronto, smoke obscured skylines and prompted air quality alerts ranging from "unhealthy" to "hazardous" on Thursday.Take a look at how the wildfire smoke is turning skies orange across the region.
A satellite image captured on Tuesday showed smoke from Canadian wildfires blowing southeast.
An image taken by the NOAA-21 satellite.
