Meredith is a regional Murrow award-winning Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and science/space correspondent. She most recently was a Freelance Meteorologist for NY 1 in New York City & the 19 First Alert Weather Team in Cleveland.
Numerous large wildfires rage across Canada filling North American skies with smoke, captured by NOAA’s GOES-18 satellite on July 23, 2024.Quick-moving wildfires continue to burn across Western Canada, keeping the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 's GOES-R series satellites busy as they monitor hotspots and smoke plumes around the clock.
On Wednesday evening in Jasper National Park, the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies, thousands of residents and tourists had to be evacuated as powerful fires scorched through the southern part of the community. According to the, there were"significant losses" across the area as structures were burned to the ground and other nearby towns were also forced to flee.
By combining these snapshots with ground observations from officials and firefighters, even wildfire and smoke forecasts can be significantly improved. This benefits firefighting efforts because it helps teams better understand each particular fire and also can help communities have more leadto evacuate if a fast-moving blaze takes a quick turn when the winds shift or if new fires ignite from another's embers.
Smoke from the Canadian wildfires obscures the skies above North America, drifting further east across Canada and down into the northern United States, captured by NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite on July 11, 2024.Wildfire smoke forecasts are also important for other parts of North America downwind of the plumes.
Meredith is a regional Murrow award-winning Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and science/space correspondent. She most recently was a Freelance Meteorologist for NY 1 in New York City & the 19 First Alert Weather Team in Cleveland.
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