Smoke expected to begin clearing
Posted Aug 21, 2010 1:28 pm.
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The thick smoke enveloping Calgary is expected to ease somewhat with the influx of a southwesterly flow, according to 660News Meteorologist Jill Taylor.
Environment Canada also predicts visibility in the region will start to improve Saturday afternoon.
Alberta’s chief medical officer of health issued a warning Thursday, urging people with chronic lung conditions to stay indoors.
Most of B-C has a fire danger rating of high to extreme, but officials are hoping cooler conditions and scattered showers will help with the fire situation.
There have been more than 14-hundred wildfires in B-C since April, scorching more than 27-hundred square kilometres of land.
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