Germany – The effects of the large forest fires in Canada are also being felt in Germany. This is shown by satellite images of smoke clouds.
Smoke from wildfires in Canada is turning parts of the sky over Europe orange. Shown here: the city of Vigo on the northwest coast of Spain. © Javier Vazquez/Europapress/dpa
Snapshots of the New York skyline shrouded in toxic smog have been seen around the world.
The thick smoke that billowed from the devastating wildfires in Canada is now also impacting the weather here, albeit to a much lesser extent.
Satellite images show noise German Meteorological Service (DWD) a cloud of smoke that arrived in Western Europe at a height of five to ten kilometers and is now moving further east.
The smoke had previously crossed the Atlantic Ocean and then obscured Portugal, 5,000 kilometers away.
The large amounts of soot and ash released into the atmosphere now mainly affect northern and southern Germany.
who around him Health feared, but can be reassured: “Most of it will remain in the air. Then it will be transported to the east”, specifies the DWD.
Such a situation in certain parts of the American Midwest or in New York, where the air was very bad and the visibility limited, is therefore not to be feared in this country.
According to the DWD, this is also related to changed flow conditions in the northern hemisphere, which caused somewhat cooler weather in central Europe.
A somewhat increased concentration of fine dust in the upper atmosphere will be detectable, but will have no noticeable effect on us.
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A cloud of smoke reaches Germany after violent forest fires in Canada
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