An air quality alert covering the entire state of Minnesota continues on Thursday, marring otherwise fairly ideal weather conditions.

Data suggests that air quality in Minneapolis ranked worse than the air in Egypt, South Korea and China. Minneapolis has the fifth worst air quality in the world, according to an air quality monitoring platform that reported its latest findings Saturday.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to choke the skies over the Upper Midwest this weekend, with the milky haze even starting to spread south into the Ohio and central Mississippi valleys -- and even into Oklahoma.