Smoke gets in your eyes!

 Large and unrelenting wildfires in the western United States and southern Canada are producing so much smoke that even the East Coast is feeling the effect

The animation below demonstrates NOAA’s calculation of near-surface smoke shows fires in the West and in southern Canada that generated large smoke plumes that accumulated over the course of July 2021.  An overlay of wind currents shows how these plumes were carried east.

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Watch July's wildfire smoke travel across the country

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