Currently, there are wildfires raging throughout Canada, and their impacts can be seen on the other side of the border.
More than 150 forest fires are raging in the province, more than 110 of them being considered out of control, and the largest municipality in Canada’s Northern Quebec region is currently being evacuated.
Eastern Canada and the northeastern United States are being covered in smoke as a result of the severe wildfires, and New York City and the state of New England are being affected.
The sky has been turned an unpleasant orange-yellow colour and the air is acrid and smoke-filled.
Late on Tuesday authorities ordered for Chibougamau, the largest town in Northern Quebec, to be evacuated – and the current number of people evacuated from their homes has reached just over 8,300.
Vulnerable people have been warned to stay indoors, away from the smoke.
Premier Francois Legault said: ‘We’re following all of this from hour to hour, obviously.
‘If we look at the situation in Quebec as a whole, there are several places where it is still worrying.’
There is no rain predicted in the upcoming days, which makes it more difficult to fight fires – and in some places the fire has been too intense to send water bombers.
Striking photographs show the smoke has travelled towards New York – and some of its most iconic sights have been blanketed in the bizarre haze.
The Statue of Liberty stands proudly surrounded by the orange glow, while the view of the skyline from one of the city’s many viewpoints is obscured with haze.
Times Square is as busy as ever, with billboards flickering despite the strangely coloured backdrop.
And the city’s iconic silhouette which marks the beginning of countless television programmes set in New York is much less recognisable when obscured with thick smoke.