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Smoke from Wildfires Travels to the Midwest

Aqua image of smoke over the midwest
NASA's Aqua satellite spies smoke from western wildfires in both Canada and the U.S. traveling along the jet stream across several provinces and into parts of the Midwest of the United States.

NASA’s Aqua satellite spies smoke from western wildfires in both Canada and the U.S. traveling along the jet stream across several provinces and into parts of the Midwest of the United States. The jet stream, a kind of “conveyor belt” for air/smoke/smog traveling from west to east in North America, can bring wildfire smoke from its origins on the West Coast all the way to the East in a matter of days. The smoke is seen drifting over parts of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the edge of Michigan as well as several provinces in Canada including Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. This Aqua image was collected with the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, MODIS, instrument on September 13, 2017.

NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption: NASA/Goddard, Lynn Jenner