Environment
Smoke From Canada's Wildfires Is Reaching All the Way to Texas
The fire season up north is off to an early and aggressive start.
Look out, Texas: there’s a huge plume of acrid smoke heading for you all the way from uppermost Canada.
The gray cloud has stretched evermore south this week and now has reached the Texas borders, though it’s still thickest above the Midwest—so thick, in fact, it’s lowered temperatures in South Dakota by as much as four degrees. “The line of smoke is not only long, but quite dense,” writes NASA’s OMPS blog, which posted the above image from Monday. “Pretty remarkable.”