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It’s a classic summery day across Minnesota. The sun is bright, temperatures are warm, and the sky is finally back to a shade of trademark Minnesota blue. 

The thick plumes of wildfire smoke that have plagued our skies the past few weeks have dissipated. Southerly winds are blowing residual smoke from Alberta wildfires back northward into Canada. And smoke plumes from newer fires in Ontario are also being pushed away from Minnesota.

Because the is little smoke aloft over Minnesota to scatter sunlight today, our skies have returned to a pleasant shade of summer blue. 

Air quality here on the ground in Minnesota is in the good to the moderate range this Juneteenth. 

And though we’ll see little wildfire smoke over Minnesota this week, sunlight and warm temperatures mean ground-level ozone will increase. The 

has issued an air quality alert for higher levels of ozone starting Tuesday.

So enjoy our Monday blue skies. But ozone levels will increase during our hot and increasingly humid week. 

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Paul Huttner

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Blue sky returns to Minnesota Monday, air quality alert starts Tuesday

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