{"id":132057,"date":"2026-07-20T11:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/132057\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:12:13","slug":"smokey-conditions-wont-be-extreme-today-and-could-fade-after-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/132057\/","title":{"rendered":"Smokey conditions won&#8217;t be extreme today and could fade after this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/smoke-smog.png\" data-caption=\"Air quality conditions won\u2019t be as bad compared to last Thursday when visibility was reduced. Pictured above is a view from last week looking north on North Harrison Street with Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital in the distance. News Now Warsaw photo by Dan Spalding.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/smoke-smog.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"smoke smog\"\/><\/a>Air quality conditions won\u2019t be as bad compared to last Thursday when visibility was reduced. Pictured above is a view from last week looking north on North Harrison Street with Lutheran Kosciusko Hospital in the distance. News Now Warsaw photo by Dan Spalding.<br \/>\nBy Dan Spalding<br \/>News Now Warsaw<\/p>\n<p>WARSAW \u2014 Another air quality alert is in effect for today across much of the region as a result of distant wildfires, but conditions are not expected to be as extreme as it was late last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnowwarsaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-20-060311.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-133650 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-20-060311-300x267.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\"  \/><\/a>Above is an air quality rating for Warsaw posted shortly before 6 a.m. Monday by airnow.gov.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke from the wildfires will likely be be more patchy with the greatest concentrations happening this morning, the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, Kosciusko County will see mostly sunny skies and a high near 82.<\/p>\n<p>Showers and possible thunderstorms are in the forecast for tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say Health effects can be immediately felt by sensitive groups as a result of fine particulate matter.<\/p>\n<p>Healthy individuals may experience difficulty breathing and throat irritation with prolonged exposure. Those folks are advised to limit outdoor activity.<\/p>\n<p>The weather service alert will remain in effect until midnight.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air quality conditions won\u2019t be as bad compared to last Thursday when visibility was reduced. Pictured above is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[63531,64174,64175,26728,20325,35393,62845,182,64176,64177,181],"class_list":["post-132057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-air-quality-alert","tag-breathing","tag-distant-wildfires","tag-kosciusko-county","tag-michigan","tag-national-weather-service","tag-northern-indiana","tag-poland","tag-showers-and-possible-thunderstorms","tag-throat-irritation","tag-warsaw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116952009756452908","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}