NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite captured the spread of wildfire smoke started in Quebec, Canada. Now the issue has settled.
An unusually intense start to Canada’s wildfire season filled skies with smoke in May 2023. Then, at the beginning of June, scores of new fires raged in the eastern Canadian province of Quebec, some of which were ignited by lightning. Canada is on track for its worst-ever year of wildfire destruction as warm and dry conditions are forecast to persist through to the end of the summer after an unprecedented start to the fire season. Due to its smoke, millions of people in the eastern U.S. faced unhealthy air quality conditions Tuesday as smoke from wildfires in eastern Canada wafts over much of the country.
The local scenery on the ground is as follows.
Reference: NASA Earth’s Tweet
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