{"id":934742,"date":"2026-07-14T17:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/934742\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:30:31","slug":"canadian-wildfire-smoke-impacts-philly-area-as-heat-wave-begins-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/934742\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian wildfire smoke impacts Philly area as heat wave begins \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smoke from a Canadian wildfire is moving through parts of the Philadelphia region on Tuesday, July 14, as the fifth heatwave of the summer begins. <\/p>\n<p>Wildfire smoke from fires burning in Ontario, Canada, began to pass over the Philly area Tuesday afternoon with the smoke high up in the altitude. <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 18px;font-family: 'Arthouse', sans-serif;font-weight: 700;color: #333;margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;line-height: 1.2em\">Stream Philadelphia News for free, 24\/7, wherever you are with NBC10.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/watch\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-lid=\"New FAST autoblock design NBC Philly\" data-lpos=\"automatic block\"> <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0;height: 12px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/cta-eye-icon-white.png\" alt=\"Watch button\" height=\"12\"\/>\u00a0 WATCH HERE<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>An air quality alert is in effect for a portion of New Jersey due to high ozone levels on Tuesday. The smoke from the fires &#8212; which are burning 1100 miles away &#8212; will push near the surface Wednesday night into Thursday. Expect our air quality to worsen locally.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3Shore-Cam.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2Shore-Cam.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Shore-Cam.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4Shore-Cam.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3HRRR-NEAR-SURFACE-SMOKE-RJ.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/4HRRR-NEAR-SURFACE-SMOKE-RJ.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/HRRR-NEAR-SURFACE-SMOKE-RJ.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2HRRR-NEAR-SURFACE-SMOKE-RJ.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Our heat alert remains in place for Wednesday. Temperatures will reach over 90\u00b0 on Tuesday and on Wednesday we should see triple digits along the I-95 corridor. Wednesday will be the worst day of this week&#8217;s heat wave, with high humidity leading to feels like temperatures up to 110\u00b0. While rain is not expected for most of us, a mainly dry cold front approaching our region could trigger an afternoon or evening shower\/storm up in the Poconos or the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tWeather Stories<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a data-lpos=\"inline-recirc-module\" data-lid=\"Storm cleanup continues across Philadelphia region days after microbursts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/video\/weather\/stories-weather\/storm-cleanup-continues-across-philadelphia-region-days-after-microbursts\/4432675\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"post__image\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/49587051407-1080pnbcstations.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a data-lpos=\"inline-recirc-module\" data-lid=\"Residents continue to clean up across the region days after microburst storms\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/weather\/stories-weather\/residents-continue-to-clean-up-across-the-region-days-after-microburst-storms\/4432622\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"post__image\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Storm-Damage.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday will still be hot in the upper 90s but with lower humidity compared to Wednesday. Friday looks to be our final day of the heatwave with partly cloudy skies and a high of 94\u00b0, but turning less humid through the day and bringing some relief. <\/p>\n<p>Showers and thunderstorms arrive for the weekend Saturday and Sunday, bringing our temperatures back down into the 80s, but also bringing the potential for heavy rain and strong thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get the latest weather updates by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/products\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">downloading the NBC10 app<\/a> and following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">the NBC10 First Alert Weather team<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smoke from a Canadian wildfire is moving through parts of the Philadelphia region on Tuesday, July 14, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":934743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,15048,1448,2830,1311,29269,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":["post-934742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-first-alert-weather","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philly-weather","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116919523154751336","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}