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Wednesday rain helped lower particle pollution, but levels will begin to increase again as north winds return

In today's news: the Triangle is under a Code Orange air quality alert, and it may get worse before it gets better. How do you stay healthy?

Some of the stories we're working on this morning at Public Radio East.

You may want to pull out you K-N95 mask. Northern Virginia's air quality has reached a hazardous level, a Code Maroon.

In the Charlotte area, the smoke from those wildfires has led to a Code Orange Air Quality Alert for the rest of the week.

High temperatures will top out around the 80-degree mark this afternoon.

Multiple states along the East Coast have issued air quality alerts this week due Canada wildfire smoke. Heres what it means.

Some improvement is expected as we head into the weekend.

Air quality alerts remain in effect Thursday in Philadelphia as hazardous smoke from wildfires in Canada hangs over the region.

As of June 8, Asheville and Western North Carolina were included in an air quality alert as smoke from the Canadian wildfires sweep the U.S.