Hot and dry weather conditions have left forests across Canada primed to burn. More than 400 blazes are currently spewing smoke into the atmosphere across the country, with more than 200 of them raging out of control. That said, “as we go into summer and the jet stream weakens across the continental United States, it’s likely we’ll see a slow diminishing of the problems we’re seeing with the smoke from Canada.”Ĭanada has had the worst start to its fire season on record, with more than nine million acres burned so far this year-about the size of Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. “The smoke is very, very tricky as far as trajectory forecasts for a longer term,” Carbin notes. National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center. This possibility for optimism is linked to changing weather patterns that may keep smoke closer to the fires that create it, says Greg Carbin, chief of forecast operations at the U.S. And so there’s a possibility that we could be in for a smoky summer across the country.”īut even though the fires may well keep raging through the summer, their smoke might not bedevil quite as many people as the current smoke has. “I am concerned about what this means for the rest of the season,” says Christine Wiedinmyer, an atmospheric chemist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. ![]() It is yet another apocalyptic scene from our climate-changed world. Editor’s Note: This story will be updated periodically as the event develops.Īn eerie, orange-lit haze has provided an unusual backdrop to the iconic Manhattan skyline as one of the region’s worst air pollution events in decades descended on New York City, courtesy of smoke pouring southward from wildfires raging across Canada.
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