ST PAUL, MN – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) has announced the air quality alert has been extended.
Initially in effect until 5 p.m. today, the MPCA extended the alert through Monday as winds will increase out of the south over the weekend as high pressure drifts east of the area. The MPCA says smoke concentrations should gradually decline starting today, but the clearing of the smoke may be slow with smoke spreading as far south as Tennessee and Missouri.
Orange Air Quality Indexes (unhealthy for sensitive groups) could hang on through Sunday and into the day Monday. Most of the alert-level smoke should push north back into Canada by later Monday.
