Was wondering when we would see this.
Canadian Fires will bring smoke across the East.
See my earlier post on this page with Daniel Swain’s insights on global wild fires.
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A recent wildfire outbreak across western Ontario, Canada, and Minnesota is sending thick plumes of smoke toward the Great Lakes and Northeast through Thursday, bringing extremely hazardous air quality and potentially some orange skies reminiscent of the Mars-like skies that enveloped New York City in June 2023.
According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre, 32 wildfires sparked across mostly western Ontario on Monday, with 46 wildfires burning out of control across the province.
Several other fires sparked and intensified in northern Minnesota Monday, as a heat dome continues to drive record temperatures across the Northern Plains.
The reason these smoke plumes are so bad is that the mass of material burning is much greater than from standard grass fires or forest understory fires.