Haze

Area dries out, hazily

By adamg - 10/1/23 - 11:53 am

The National Weather Service is as surprised as we are: Read more.

Morning in the mountains

By adamg - 9/28/23 - 9:28 am

Mary Ellen watched the sun come up over the top of Millennium Park in West Roxbury this morning.

Another hazy day, courtesy Canadian wildfires

By adamg - 7/18/23 - 8:59 am

Hazy start to the day, with sun partially obscured

Brooks Payne pointed his camera up towards the sky over the South End this morning. Read more.

Unhealthy air returns

By adamg - 7/17/23 - 2:05 pm

Haze over Boston as seen from the Middlesex Fells

View of downtown Boston today from Wright's Tower in the Middlesex Fells in Medford. Photo by Tastesred.

State air monitors in Roxbury, Dorchester, Chinatown and Chelsea are currently showing levels of pollutants in the area that are "unhealthy for sensitive groups:" carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone and "fine particles" in Roxbury; carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and fine particles in Dorchester; fine particles in Chinatown and Chelsea.

If you're five to seven miles outside of downtown Boston, the city appears to be lost in haze.

Smoke gets in their eyes

By adamg - 7/27/21 - 9:20 am

Joe Kidston walked Rocky Beach in Cohasset this morning, reports western-wildfire smoke was still hazing everything up: Read more.

A hazy shade of Oregon

By adamg - 7/26/21 - 5:26 pm

JS3263 looked out from a Logan terminal around 5 p.m. and saw the sky was a hazy shade of Oregon - and British Columbia.

Sunset as unusual as sunrise due to smoke from western fires

By adamg - 7/20/21 - 10:44 pm

Matt Frank captured tonight's surreal sunset over the Mystic and the Tobin Bridge.

He wasn't the only one watching the sunset this evening: Read more.