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   May 28, 2023 - Smoke from Canadian Wildfires over Europe   
      
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      The Canadian wildfire season has been exceptionally severe in 2023,   
      with large, fierce fires scorching huge swaths of western forest and   
      pumping vast rivers of smoke into the atmosphere.   
      
      Each spring the fire risk rises in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the   
      northeastern edge of British Columbia—naturally dry areas that lie in   
      the rain shadow of the Canadian Rockies. There is a period each year,   
      after snow melts but before spring growth begins, that dry forest   
      undergrowth is exposed. The risk of wildfire usually increases in   
      March, and the region typically suffers several handfuls of small,   
      short-lived blazes for a few months after that time.   
      
      But in May 2023, this naturally fire-prone dry period coincided with   
      unusually hot and windy weather, turning what normally would have been   
      scattered small fires into huge wildland blazes that raged for several   
      weeks. The fires, ignited by lightning or human activity, charred more   
      than 1 million hectares (400 square miles) as of May 24, and lofted   
      smoke high into the atmosphere.   
      
      The smoke blanketed the skies of North America for weeks, followed the   
      curves of the jet streak, and swirled into two separate extratropical   
      cyclones. By late May, streams of airborne smoke had crossed the   
      Atlantic Ocean to reach Europe.   
      
      On May 25, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on   
      board NASA’s Terra satellite acquired a true-color image of a streak of   
      smoke over Denmark and Sweden. The smoke originated in Western Canada,   
      more than 4,200 miles (6,760 km) away.   
      
      Image Facts   
      Satellite:  Terra   
      Date Acquired: 5/25/2023   
      Resolutions:  1km (539.8 KB),  500m (1.3 MB),  250m (940.6 KB)   
      Bands Used: 1,4,3   
      Image Credit: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC   
      
      
      
   https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/individual.php?db_date=2023-05-28   
       
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