Minnesotans can breathe easy again as smoky haze clears

Minnesotans from Luverne to Le Sueur and from Delano to Duluth awoke Tuesday to clear blue skies, one day after nearly all of the state resembled 1970s Los Angeles, thanks to smoke wafting southeastward from Canadian and Alaskan wildfires.

Monday’s grayish haze prompted the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) to declare the air “unhealthy” for one and all, and not just the elderly, the very young and those with breathing problems.

The worst of the air hung over a large swath of Minnesota from its southern border with Iowa to Duluth and a pocket along the northeast border for much of Monday. The quality gradually improved by midevening.

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