If you’re outside today, be advised you could feel the effects of air quality that weather experts say has entered “unhealthy” territory.

The National Weather Service is advising people in southern Wisconsin to stay indoors if they can Wednesday. Airborne pollution particles have reached levels here the Environmental Protection Agency considers “unhealthy” for long-term exposure.

That is mainly because a massive storm system on Tuesday pulled in a cold front, and that weather pattern pushed smoke from Canadian wildfires south and into the lower atmosphere. The pollutant particles in the air have degraded the air quality significantly here.

Monitors the Rock County Health Department has set in Jansesville and Beloit show a local air quality index Wednesday morning of 172. That is in amon

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