Calgary not in the clear yet, still under air quality advisory

CALGARY – The Air Quality Advisory is still in place in the city of Calgary and areas to the south, east & west.

As of Saturday night it extended as far north as Spruce Grove & Fort Saskatchewan in Alberta, and as far east as Brandon Manitoba.

The Air Quality Health Index for our city has been in the low category since 9 pm. Saturday night, and Global weather specialist Jodi Hughes expects it will stay there until at least Sunday. She says that the reason we are still sitting under an Advisory has nothing to do with the current conditions-it is based on what’s to come.

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“At this point it looks like we will follow a similar atmospheric flow pattern to last week-which means that as long as those forest fires in the Northwestern United States continue to burn out of control-we run the risk of more smoky conditions over the next few days,” Hughes said.

Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "At this point it looks like we will follow a similar atmospheric flow pattern to last week-which means that as long as those forest fires in the Northwestern United States continue to burn out of control-we run the risk of more smoky conditions over the next few days," Hughes said.

“It seems unlikely we will be as smoky as we were for parts of last week. But it is not out of the question that our Air Quality could suffer once again.”

Special Air Quality Statements are issued by Environment Canada on the advice of and in conjunction with  Alberta Health Services and the Alberta Government. Once those agencies feel secure that the risk will remain low for a continued period of time we will see that advisory dropped.