Smoke from blazes in the western United States and Canada has blown across North America and even across the North Atlantic to Europe.
Smoke from wildfires in the western United States and Canada spread nearly coast to coast, and from Canada to Mexico, on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, as seen in this map based on computer modeling output. Yesterday, as my daughter sat in the stands of New York City's Yankee Stadium, she turned her gaze from the players on the field to the sky. She was unsettled by what she saw: a miasma of air pollution.
You can see the pall in the video above, consisting of images acquired by by the GOES-16 weather satellite."Wildfires continue to burn actively across 13 states, where 78 large fires and complexes have burned 1,346,736 acres," the National Interagency Fire Center reported in its update today . That's more than four times the size of the city of Los Angeles. "New large fires were reported in California, Montana and Wyoming.
On July 17, 2021, smoke from North American wildfires had blown all the way across the North Atlantic to Norway and Sweden, circled in red in this map of the smoke distribution.
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