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For the second straight day, thin layers of smoke from wildfires that are burning in western Canada are drifting into the upper atmosphere and creating hazy skies as far away as New Jersey and New York. The National Weather Service’s New York regional office said hazy, smoky skies were visible Thursday morning on EarthCam cameras aimed at Manhattan, Montauk on eastern Long Island in New York and in New London, Connecticut. “The smoke is coming from wildfires in Canada may linger into tomorrow before the arrival of rain this weekend,” the weather service noted in a social media post on X. The w…

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