New York, July 1 : Much of New York State will continue to be under air quality health advisory on Saturday due to smoke from the raging wildfires in Canada.

Alerts were issued from Ontario, northern Minnesota and Michigan across to New York and down to the southeastern states of North Carolina and Georgia, the latest dangerous air conditions in much of North America's Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions.
The air quality alerts come as much of the US South and Midwest wilts under a brutal heat wave that is affecting millions, with the National Weather Service issuing a heat index forecast as high as 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 Celsius) Wednesday in northern and central Texas.
Chicago, whose metropolitan area is home to more than nine million people, posted a "very unhealthy" air quality index of 215 early Wednesday, the US Environmental Protection Agency said on its AirNow app.