{"id":8998,"date":"2025-08-04T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8998"},"modified":"2025-08-04T13:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:15:55","slug":"wildfire-smoke-blanketing-ottawa-could-linger-into-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/wildfire-smoke-blanketing-ottawa-could-linger-into-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire smoke blanketing Ottawa could linger into Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Canada says a cloud of wildfire smoke that is covering the nation\u2019s capital could hang overhead into Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A special air quality statement is in effect for much of the region as smoke continues to affect most of southern and eastern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wildfire smoke may persist into tonight and possibly Tuesday before finally easing,\u201d Environment Canada says. \u201cAir quality and visibility due to wildfire smoke can fluctuate over short distances and can vary considerably from hour to hour.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Canada says a cloud of wildfire smoke that is covering the nation\u2019s capital could hang overhead into Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A special air quality statement is in effect for much of the region as smoke continues to affect most of southern and eastern Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wildfire smoke may persist into tonight and possibly Tuesday before finally easing,\u201d Environment Canada says. \u201cAir quality and visibility due to wildfire smoke can fluctuate over short distances and can vary considerably from hour to hour.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/wildfire-smoke-blanketing-ottawa-could-linger-into-tuesday\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wildfire smoke blanketing Ottawa could linger into Tuesday<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1132,96,126,1129,138,119,137,249,70,207,165],"class_list":["post-8998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-air-quality","tag-canada","tag-climate-crisis","tag-forest-fires","tag-gatineau","tag-ontario","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-gatineau","tag-quebec","tag-wildfire-smoke","tag-wildfires","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8999,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8998\/revisions\/8999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}