Air Quality Advisory still in effect for Metro Vancouver
Posted July 6, 2015 9:05 am.
Last Updated July 6, 2015 10:40 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – All of the smoke and fine particulate matter floating around mean an Air Quality Advisory is still in effect for Metro Vancouver. It won’t be lifted until the wind has shifted for long enough to blow it in a different direction.
Metro Vancouver Air Quality Planner Geoff Doerksen explains it is more of a precautionary move at this point. “It’s been mixing down to the ground, especially in Vancouver, Burnaby and the North Shore. We are seeing visible smoke on the ground now. We have issued an an Air Quality Advisory for Metro Vancouver because of the high concentrations of fine particulate matter mainly due to smoke coming from wildfires outside of our region.”
“Really it is more of a concern over a longer period of time. We did issue the Air Quality Advisory as a precautionary advisory,” he explains.
Doerksen adds if you do have respiratory problems you are encouraged to stay inside until the advisory is lifted.
The sky around Metro Vancouver took on a number of different colors yesterday under thick haze, all because of wildfires burning in the Interior and on Vancouver Island.
There is also a wildfire smoke advisory in effect for Sea-to-Sky corridor and surrounding areas.