8,000 Kilometres Later: Smoke From Extensive Canada Wildfires Reaches Malta
If you ever needed proof that things happening far away from our tiny island can still have an effect on us, here’s your daily proof: smoke from fires in Canada have made it to Malta.
As shared by popular local page Malta Islands Weather and snapped by Severe Weather Europe earlier this morning, a satellite image of the European region shows a thin layer of smoke covering much of the atmosphere around the Central Mediterranean. And as it so happens, that smoke has already travelled over 8,000 kilometres to be here.
“This smoke ended up migrating by combining with several storm systems across the Atlantic, northern Europe and finally the Mediterranean,” the weather page explained, following very strong northwesterly winds battering regions in Spain, Sicily and southern Italy, even bringing with them gusts of Force 4 and 5 to Malta today.
In fact, during yesterday’s beautiful and rather rare lunar spectacle, the popular blue supermoon ended up appearing over our skies in a much darker red hue, also due to all the ash in the atmosphere.
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It’s been a harrowing couple of weeks for Canada, with some 375 wildfires still burning up till yesterday. Across British Columbia, some 127 wildfires are still out of control, with distressing photos and videos emerging on an hourly basis. And this isn’t an isolated incident, either: just last year, Canada’s wildfires produced nearly a decade’s worth of emissions, emitting around two billion tonnes of CO2.
“This phenomenon serves as a reminder that all that happens in any part of the world, no matter how isolated, eventually affects each and every one of us,” Maltese Islands Weather ended.
Have you noticed a more smoky, reddish hue in our skies recently?
Cover Image Sunset Photo by Sofiane (@sosozhi)
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