“The FAA has slowed traffic to and from the New York City area airports due to reduced visibility from wildfire smoke,” the administration told CNN. “The agency will adjust the volume of traffic to account for the rapidly changing conditions.”
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The transportation troubles are the result of the blanket of wildfire smoke that settled on New York City earlier this week. The smoke drastically reduced visibility and tainted the metropolitan area’s air quality—New York City earned the title of the worst air quality in the world yesterday, according to NBC News. The cloud of Blade Runner-esque haze has lifted dramatically in the last 24 hours, and, at the same time, the United States has dispatched hundreds of firefighters to battles the Canadian blaze.
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