Air quality improving across Minnesota

A favorable wind shift is pushing the thickest smoke back toward Canada today.

Southerly breezes are shoving smoke northward again. Air quality readings are improving across Minnesota today.

There’s a lot less orange and red, and more green and yellow on the map Wednesday afternoon. Air quality readings are in the good to moderate range across most of Minnesota.

Particulate readings in the Twin Cities have fallen into the low end of the (yellow) moderate range.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s HRRR near-surface smoke forecast continues the trend of pushing smoke northward, with lower smoke concentrations pushing across southern Minnesota.