DETROIT — Although clouds of smoke appear to be lifting compared to levels seen earlier this week, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has continued its statewide air quality alert for particulate matter pollution through midnight Sunday.
Officials have attributed recent weather patterns as the cause for slow-moving air quality improvement.
"We've shifted to more of a southwesterly wind-flow aloft, which is pushing that thicker smoke cover away from the region, but it hasn't been strong enough to push all of the smoke out of the region," said David Kook, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in White Lake Township.
