Smoke from wildfires blazing in Quebec has blanketed New York City, turning the skies a rusty-orange color.
Quebec Forestry Minister Maïté Blanchette Vézina told Canadian news outlet CBC that 1,776 square miles of land had burned this year so far, surpassing the 1991 total of about 1,351 square miles. This equates to around 12 times the 10-year average area burned for this time of year."We have never seen these many hectares [burn]," Vézina said.
This comes only weeks after British Columbia and Alberta in the west saw multiple wildfires, and days after Nova Scotia experienced several intense blazes. It is thought that these fires were driven by the country's unseasonably dry spring, combined with dry and windy conditions. Fires are still burning across the rest of the country, with 420 fires recorded in CanadaA smoky haze from wildfires in Canada envelops the Statue of Liberty in Upper Bay on June 7, 2023 in New York City.
"Smoke particles scatter and absorb shorter wavelengths of sunlight like blues, greens, and yellows more easily compared to the longer-wavelength oranges and reds. So we see muted red sunrises and sunsets under heavy-smoke conditions," Stauffer said."In extreme cases like this week, the sun may become obscured entirely."
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