Canadian Wildfires

For the team of people working to forecast air quality at the Forsyth County Office of Environmental Assistance and Protection, this summer has been a wildcard. Smoke from the Canadian wildfires brought more back-to-back poor air quality days than the area has seen in years. The county has been at an advantage though: It’s one of only three in the state to operate its own air quality monitoring stations and it's the only one that issues its own daily forecasts.

Forsyth County could see another few days of suboptimal air quality this week, due again to the effects of wildfires in Canada. The Forsyth County Office…