GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – Have the skies been looking a little hazier than usual lately? There’s a reason for that.
Meteorologists say smoke from wildfires is reaching our area, causing persistent hazy conditions.
The smoke is mostly from fires in Canada, but some of it is from fires in the western U.S. as well.
“That smoke is getting up in the atmosphere and moving across much of the U-S.”
Meteorologist Jeff Last works out of the National Weather Service office in Ashwaubenon.
“Since the middle part of July, but it’s been more intense now for the past two weeks.”
And the rain we might see this week could come down as mud or splats of dirt.
“Cars and windows may actually be spotted by dirty rain, as it moves through the atmosphere.”
And get used to it too.
The weather experts say the haze will be around as long as the western fires keep burning. That could easily be into September.
