Anticipated Weather
**Poor air quality continues today and tonight. Limit time outdoors.**
- Continued smoky haze today with scattered PM showers & t’storms
- Scattered t’storms again Friday with haze slow to dissipate
- Dry Saturday with t’storms returning later on Sunday
From our National Weather Center Partners
- Smoke and visibility restrictions remain in place today through likely early Friday due to smoke from the fires in eastern Canada. A westerly wind shift on Friday should help to improve air quality and visibility.
- Reminder: The NWS provides weather inputs but are not the direct experts for Air Quality and the National Weather Center helps distribute but don't make the decisions on Air Quality Alerts. Current Air Quality can be seen via https://fire.airnow.gov/. Categories today in Central PA have ranged from "Unhealthy" to "Very Unhealthy".
- Today's Forecast
- Friday's Forecast (please continue to monitor for updates)
Safety
- Press Release: Multi-Agency release regarding Hazardous Air Conditions in South Central and Eastern Pennsylvania Due to Wildfire Smoke - https://www.ahs.dep.pa.gov/NewsRoomPublic/articleviewer.aspx?id=22302&typeid=1
This release includes warnings, safety tips and where to find more information.
Conditions will likely improve throughout the day, moving the state into the Code Red Air Quality range for eastern Pennsylvania and a Code Orange Air Quality Action Day for western Pennsylvania for fine particulate matter.
- Under Code Maroon conditions all residents are advised to stay indoors and reduce activity levels.
- Under Code Purple conditions all residents should avoid prolonged or heavy outdoor activity. Children, sensitive populations such as older people, those who exercise or work outdoors and those with lung or respiratory conditions such as asthma, emphysema, or bronchitis should avoid all outdoor activity.
- Under Code Red conditions children, sensitive populations such as older people, those who exercise or work outdoors and those with lung or respiratory conditions such as asthma, emphysema, or bronchitis should avoid prolonged or heavy outdoor activities. Everyone else should limit their outdoor activities
- Under Code Orange conditions children, sensitive populations such as older people, those who exercise or work outdoors and those with lung or respiratory conditions such as asthma, emphysema, or bronchitis should limit their outdoor activities.
Operations
- Commonwealth Response Coordination Center (CRCC) Status: Normal Operations
- The PEMA daily operations report is available on the PEMA website: https://www.pema.pa.gov/Response/Internal-Operations/CWWC/Pages/Operations-Reports.aspx
- The FEMA daily operations briefing is available here:https://www.disastercenter.com/FEMA%20Daily%20Operation%20Brief.pdf
