Wildfire smoke from Canada has hit Norway, which is more than 3,000 miles from the North American country.
The smoke from wildfires in eastern Canada has reached all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to Norway, more than 3,000 miles away.
Earlier this week, the haze crossed the Canadian border into the U.S., enveloping East Coast cities in smoke; New York City had the worst air quality of any major city in the world Wednesday . Throughout the week, wind has also carried this smoke across Greenland and Iceland into Norway, where it was first detected on Wednesday.
"When the smoke reaches Europe, the number of particles is much lower," Nikolaos Evangeliou, a senior scientist at the NILU, said in a statement."This means that we can possibly see the smoke as a faint haze, and perhaps notice the smell of smoke. But the number of particles is so low that it should not cause any health hazards."
Low concentrations of smoke will likely drift across the Scandinavian country and into Southern Europe, according to NILU forecasting models, which pull data from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction's Global Forecast System in the U.S.More than 9.
"The distribution of fires from coast to coast this year is unusual," Michael Norton, an official from Canada's Natural Resources ministry, told Reuters."At this time of the year, fires usually occur only on one side of the country at a time, most often that being in the west.
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