Weather update: winds, wildfire smoke, weekend rain

Gusty winds and low humidity not ideal for wildfire conditions in the Maritimes today. One the positive side have slightly cooler temperatures is. More help arrives this weekend in the form of a round of rain Saturday night into Sunday.

More on that in the video update here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igy1Lup57eY&feature=youtu.be

Something that I didn't get to in the video but writing up for the CTV News Atlantic website is that a haze of smoke from the Ontario wildfires is forecast to return to the Maritimes on Saturday. That would happen during the day and this time it could filter down close enough to the ground to impact air quality in western parts of the region. You can monitor the air quality forecast at weather.gc.ca. So far it remains at "low risk" for Saturday.

If the smoke is present during the day on Saturday the rain Saturday night and Sunday will help with that as well.