An air quality alert has been issued for most of Southeast Michigan on Independence Day.
The alert is in effect for most areas along and south of I-69 throughout the day on July 4. The National Weather Service has also extended the alert into Saturday.
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This is due to smoke from Canadian wildfires as well as anticipated smoke from fireworks being set off.
Keep an eye on our friends and neighbors, as well as those that have respiratory diseases like asthma, maybe a little more time inside than outside for the Fourth of July.
Fourth of July forecast
After lots of sunshine and a few thunderstorms for some of us throughout our Thursday, we will keep the sunshine along with heat humidity, and the chance for a thunderstorm or two into the forecast looking ahead into our Friday.
High-pressure will control the forecast as we go through the end of the weekend of the start of the weekend, but with enough moisture in stability around thanks to the heat humidity, we will see the chance of one or two thunderstorms late Friday afternoon and into Friday evening. The thunderstorm chances will not be widespread, so I expect most places to stay dry as we had throughout the day.
Summer heat and humidity kicks in throughout the day on Friday as well. Expect high temperatures to head into the upper 80s to near 90°, but once you’ve factor in the humidity, heat index values will head into the low to mid 90s by Friday afternoon.
