A NASA scientist says the event should last for at least the next two days. Read more at straitstimes.com.
this week from smoke spewed by fires in Canada is “exceptionally rare” and “extreme”, said Ryan Stauffer, a NASA scientist specialising in air pollution.How unusual is this event?
“And that was... maybe even an eerily similar set-up, where there were new wildfires in Quebec, this smoke streams directly into the north-eastern of the United States. “These observations that are coming in yesterday and today are certainly rivalling that July 2002 event. So this is exceptionally rare...It’s really just an extreme event.”over the past several days, the weather pattern is such that there’s a big high-pressure system over central Canada, and there’s a big low-pressure system off the coast of the north-east United States.
“These particles, they’re so small that when you breathe them in, they don’t just irritate your lungs and cause breathing issues. They’re actually small enough to enter your bloodstream.
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