Air quality alert, record heat expected across Puget Sound

Air quality alerts have been issued for western Washington, as haze hangs over the region.

The air quality in the greater Seattle area hit an unhealthy level Thursday due to wildfire smoke.

Meteorologist Dana Felton with the National Weather Service says it will get worse this weekend.

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“We don’t have a lot of circulation in the lower levels of the atmosphere right now so there’s really not any mechanism to move smoke out of the air,” Felton said. “Saturday is gonna be a little worse, but finally on Monday a low-level flow will turn west and that will give us some

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