image: Canadian wildfires have surpassed last year's fire season already and the main output, smoke, is now moving into the United States. The Terra satellite's image from yesterday (June 10) showed heavy smoke over the US Midwest. Today's image from Terra shows the smoke moving into the Mid-Atlantic states including Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland. Residents of these areas are on notice that sunsets will be much redder and more orange for the next few days. The reason? The size of the smoke particles is just right for filtering out other colors meaning that red, pink and orange colors can be seen more vividly in the sky. More orange and red sunsets are likely Wednesday evening and at sunrise Thursday morning. view more
Credit: This natural-color satellite image was collected by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Terra satellite on June 10, 2015. NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team. Caption: NASA/Goddard, Lynn Jenner