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Both serve to alert the public about existing or potential poor air quality, while providing appropriate health advice and protective actions that can be taken, the ministry of environment says.
Air quality advisories are issued for individual communities and usually result from local activities such as vehicle emissions, industrial emissions, residential wood burning, and road dust.
Advisories are sent when measurements of an air pollutant exceeds its short-term provincial air quality objective.
Smoky skies bulletins are specific to wildfire smoke, which can occur over large distances and change quickly.
These bulletins are issued when areas of the province are being impacted or have reasonable potential to be impacted by wildfire smoke within 24 to 48 hours.
