Environment
A Huge Smoke Wave Makes the Pacific Northwest Smell Like 'Burnt Toast'
Watch it swoop over the horizon with this time-lapse footage.
“Apple-smoked bacon,” “burnt toast,” the “most epic camping trip”—these are some of the things people are smelling in Vancouver, as a pungent and sky-yellowing wave of wildfire smoke sweeps over the Pacific Northwest.
The weather turned eye-stinging this weekend when fires on Vancouver Island belched out a massive cloud of soot. Here’s what the Suomi NPP satellite saw on July 4: