{"id":7988,"date":"2026-07-17T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/the-northeast-looks-like-mars-right-now-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T18:19:07","slug":"the-northeast-looks-like-mars-right-now-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/the-northeast-looks-like-mars-right-now-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"The Northeast Looks Like Mars Right Now \u2014 Here&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/svjZR_lCImg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Skies across the Northeast turned an eerie orange this week as smoke from more than 830 Canadian wildfires \u2014 plus over a dozen fires in northern Minnesota \u2014 swept into the U.S., triggering air quality alerts from Chicago to New York to Washington, D.C.<br \/>\nThe smoke is being made worse by the region&#8217;s ongoing heat dome, which is trapping the haze near the surface instead of letting it disperse. Iconic landmarks including the Statue of Liberty, One World Trade Center, and the Empire State Building were all photographed shrouded in orange haze, while in Utica, NY, the sun reportedly glowed deep orange through the smoke. On Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, one meteorologist said conditions looked &quot;like Mars.&quot;<br \/>\nAir quality has reached hazardous levels in parts of the Midwest \u2014 Marquette, Michigan hit an AQI of 795, and Duluth, Minnesota hit 682, both far above the &quot;hazardous&quot; threshold of 300. Boston&#8217;s AQI reached about 130 Wednesday morning, landing in the &quot;unhealthy for sensitive groups&quot; range.<br \/>\nNYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani issued an Air Quality Health Advisory, urging residents to stay indoors in air conditioning, limit outdoor activity, and check on vulnerable neighbors, while the city distributed free KN95 masks. Forecasters say a shift in the weather pattern next week should gradually improve conditions, but smoky skies are expected to persist into the weekend.<br \/>\n\ud83c\udf2b\ufe0f In this video:<\/p>\n<p>Why the sky turned orange across the Northeast<br \/>\nHow the heat dome is making the smoke worse<br \/>\nWhich cities are under air quality alerts<\/p>\n<p>Want to create live streams like this? Check out StreamYard: https:\/\/streamyard.com\/pal\/d\/5759717953503232<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skies across the Northeast turned an eerie orange this week as smoke from more than 830 Canadian wildfires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lisa-cabrera"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/hqdefault-183.jpg?fit=480%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}