Breaking the nearly 5 thousand km, smoke from forest fires reached new York. The national weather service (National Weather Service) has published a map showing the flows that spread from California to the East coast of the United States.
The West is burning up, and every state in the contiguous US can expect smoky skies this Wednesday as a result: https://t.co/67KH383jHr pic.twitter.com/2O70YW1TV8
— WeatherOptics (@weatheroptics) August 8, 2018
«The West in flames and, as a result, each neighboring state, we should expect grey skies».
A few days after California declared a state of emergency, the smoke has spread to almost 5 thousand kilometers. Not currently filled with smoke just South-West of the USA.
The impressive speed of movement of the smoke gained, rising more than 1.6 km from the earth’s surface, where it is picked up by strong wind. Threats to human health yet — the smoke is too high and until he lowered precipitation is not dangerous. If in new York the rains, the air quality will be degraded.
By the way, until recently, the impact of smoke on air quality was underestimated, say researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Studies have shown that when forest fires emit huge amount of particulate matter, including toxic. This means that large fires have a very long-lasting consequences.
Recall fire «Mendocino» recognized as the most ambitious in the history of California.
