Wintry mix spreads across Minnesota

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 for Minnesota has been extended until 11 p.m. for most of southwestern Minnesota. 

A plume of smoke has been drifting across the Upper Midwest again this week. The thickest smoke layers have been across the Dakotas and western Minnesota.

Air quality readings Wednesday afternoon still show unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter (smoke) across southwestern Minnesota. Air quality readings in the city of Marshall have been in the 140s on Wednesday. 

There is still a milky white-tinted sky across our state Wednesday from smoke aloft, but air quality is good at ground level in most of the Twin Cities area and eastern Minnesota. 

Here is the language on the latest alert from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency:

Air quality will improve across Minnesota Thursday.

Here’s the latest forecast discussion from MPCA:

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Air quality alert extended for parts of Minnesota

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