Officials warned young children and those with respiratory illnesses to take precautions. For weeks, smoke from Canadian wildfires has been drifting across the border.

New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley will all experience air quality within the 101-150 range on the air quality index Sunday, the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation forecasted—meaning the air could contain fine particles and could be “unhealthy for sensitive groups.”

"While it may improve a little bit later on today or tonight, I think the air quality could go back down again beginning Tuesday and perhaps into Wednesday," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Tom Kines told The Post.