Air quality in some parts of the United States is worsening as smoke from dozens of wildfires in Canada travels south, pushed ...

A beach hazards statement also warned of dangerous lake conditions in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, forecast area. Along with dangers to swimmers, inexperienced boaters were warned ...

Zachary Yack, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Romeoville office, said at 6:30 p.m. that the storm was engulfing office headquarters, reducing visibility to less than half a mile.

“This is not common at all,” Zachary Yack, a meteorologist with the Weather Service office in Romeoville, 30 miles southwest of Chicago, said on Friday. Friday was the first time that the ...

“It looks like the smoke is moving in behind the cold front,” NWS meteorologist Zachary Yack said. Most of the smoke is “thinning behind the front,” he said. But fine particle levels are ...