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Boston's Poor-Air Days Triple as Fires Move North

7/21/2026

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  • Meteorologist Ken Mahan warns that New England’s smoky skies may become a new normal as climate-driven wildfires move northward.
  • Smoke from Upper Midwest and South-Central Canada wildfires has entered New England, causing poor-air-quality readings that are now easing.
  • Boston recorded three times more poor-air-quality days from wildfire smoke in the past five years than in the two decades before 2000.