West-Northwest Winds will continue to bring Smoke south from Canada into Minnesota Today and at times Air Quality in the Twin Cities may be Poor this morning into the afternoon otherwise expect Sunny Skies with highs in the low 80s and West-Northwest Winds at 5 to 10 mph.

"Some of the worst I've ever seen by the sheer size of the fires," Joe Meyer, an advanced fire training specialist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, recalled to WCCO. "Just to see the walls of fire that were 100 feet over the treetops and a mile long and tearing through the forest up there.

The return of wildfire smoke from fires burning in Canada has sparked another air quality alert in Minnesota, which will be in effect through Tuesday. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has placed the northern two-thirds of the state in the red alert zone, which means "unhealthy" for all residents, through 9 a.m. Tuesday.