This is why wildfire smoke from Canada hasn’t reached Maine

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 8, 2023

While some areas of New England and other parts of the United States are seeing orange skies from Canadian wildfires, Maine is likely to be spared, experts say. Thanks to a persistent area of low pressure sitting just south of Maine, the state will avoid the smoke from Canadian wildfires currently blanketing the mid-Atlantic region. Anne Strauser, meteorologist with Caribou NWS, said, “The smoke from Quebec is circling around that big low, and we are like the center of that circle.”