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Wildfires - North American Wildfire Smoke Travels to Europe

It's been a particularly brutal bushfire season in parts of western North America, as several large blazes continue to cause headaches from California up to British Columbia. As shocking new satellite images show, the smoke from these fires hasn't been limited to the US West Coast, or even the North American continent. It's drifted all the way over the Atlantic Ocean into European skies.

As the smoke from western bushfires drifts higher and higher, it's picked up by strong prevailing winds that take it across the continent and towards the Atlantic ocean. Incredibly, smoke that was above the Pacific Northwest on September 4 drifted to parts of western Europe in just four days.