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Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Wildfire Smoke Across Northeastern US

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Here are a couple photos that I took today of the hazy sunset along with hazy skies.

Redish Haze Sunset

Here is a picture of haze in the distance

Here is an interesting post with information from NASA Earth "Smoke Across North America


Smoke from fires raging in central and western North America has spread widely across the continent. Skies have turned hazy in cities ranging from Boston to Washington, D.C., as smoke from fires in Canada’s Manitoba and Ontario provinces poured into the U.S. Northeast.


This map shows the concentration of black carbon particulates—commonly called soot—over North America on July 21, 2021. The black carbon data come from the GEOS forward processing (GEOS-FP) model, which assimilates data from satellite, aircraft, and ground-based observing systems. To simulate black carbon, modelers include satellite observations of aerosols and fires. GEOS-FP also ingests meteorological data like air temperature, moisture, and winds to simulate the plume’s behavior.


Dense plumes of black carbon are also visible streaming from clusters of fires in British Columbia, Oregon, Washington, and California".


https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148610/smoke-across-north-america



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