{"id":22319,"date":"2023-06-08T05:18:48","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T09:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=22319"},"modified":"2023-06-08T05:20:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T09:20:19","slug":"shore-shrouded-in-smoke-orange-air-alert-continues-thursday-amidst-eerie-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2023\/06\/shore-shrouded-in-smoke-orange-air-alert-continues-thursday-amidst-eerie-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Shore Shrouded in Smoke: &#8216;Orange&#8217; Air Alert Continues Thursday Amidst Eerie Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script id=\"1d1881099b0e4ead9e89423d7bba1613\">(new Image()).src = 'https:\/\/capi.connatix.com\/tr\/si?token=e6ca17a0-9f6c-402e-8f17-7db2585f0eb0&cid=209cb62d-f20d-41b1-885d-a317d66dc464';  cnx.cmd.push(function() {    cnx({      playerId: \"e6ca17a0-9f6c-402e-8f17-7db2585f0eb0\",      mediaId: \"7242a6d9-88da-4cec-a8d8-2c0bf916311d\"    }).render(\"1d1881099b0e4ead9e89423d7bba1613\");  });<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Shore residents on Thursday will face another day of poor air quality linked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/news\/nyc-air-quality-today-hazardous-canadian-wildfire-b2353603.html\">wildfires in Canada<\/a> that transformed the midday sky into an eerie yellow-orange glow Wednesday, blocking sunlight and enveloping the region in an acrid, smokey odor.<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has issued a code orange air quality alert Thursday for Ocean and Southeastern Burlington Counties, the National Weather Service said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14083\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fire_haze_jersey_shore_1311-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14083\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14083\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fire_haze_jersey_shore_1311-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A code orange air quality alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for sensitive groups. Those groups include children, people suffering from asthma, heart disease or other lung conditions, as well as the elderly population in general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe effects of air pollution can be minimized by avoiding strenuous activity or exercise outdoors,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>At approximately 3 a.m. Thursday, a federal air quality tracking site measured Ocean County\u2019s conditions as \u201cvery unhealthy,\u201d the second-worst category.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14086\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fire_haze_jersey_shore_1314-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14086\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14086\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fire_haze_jersey_shore_1314-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14088\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-08-at-5.10.51-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14088\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14088\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-08-at-5.10.51-AM-1024x481.png\" alt=\"A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"470\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14085\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fire_haze_jersey_shore_1313-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-3\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14085\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14085\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fire_haze_jersey_shore_1313-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14087\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-08-at-5.10.08-AM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-4\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14087\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14087\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-08-at-5.10.08-AM-1024x618.png\" alt=\"A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"604\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14082\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fire_haze_jersey_shore_1310-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-5\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14082\" class=\"size-large wp-image-14082\" src=\"https:\/\/lavallette-seaside.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fire_haze_jersey_shore_1310-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A haze envelopes the Jersey Shore, June 7, 2023. (Photo: Shorebeat)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The NWS forecast called for \u201cwidespread haze\u201d and \u201cwidespread smoke\u201d across the region, though the west winds that propelled much of the smoke eastward on Wednesday will shift a bit. There will be a \u201cslight chance\u201d of showers between 3 and 4 p.m. and a slight chance of a thunderstorm later, but only about 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The worst of the smoke, however, will be before 10 a.m. A north wind of 5 to 10 m.p.h. will become southeast in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Widespread haze will continue into the evening hours, with the wind predominantly coming from the south.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2023\/06\/shore-shrouded-in-smoke-orange-air-alert-continues-thursday-amidst-eerie-images\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shore residents on Thursday will face another day of poor air quality linked to wildfires in Canada that transformed the midday sky into an eerie yellow-orange glow Wednesday, blocking sunlight and enveloping the region in an acrid, smokey odor. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has issued a code orange air quality alert Thursday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,4975,4484,4977,4976,4974],"class_list":["post-22319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-canadian-wildfires","tag-featured","tag-haze","tag-smoke","tag-wildfire","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/fire_haze_jersey_shore_1314-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-5NZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}