Images from the spacecraft show huge smoke from forest fires in Canada descending into the northern United States, and with it poor air quality.
Canada continues to have one in all its worst wildfire seasons, with greater than 400 fires sending smoke across Canada and into america, causing air quality concerns. Last week, Latest York City had its worst Air Quality Index rating ever, when smoke from wildfires turned the sky orange-red for hours.
Extreme forest fire activity, with greater than half of the fires considered to be uncontrolled, will proceed to send smoke to NOAA satellites within the northern US, tracking smoke and weather patterns showing where it’s headed next.
NOAA’s GOES East satellite has an instrument called the Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) that observes dust, fog, smoke and clouds 24 hours a day.
The Cooperative Institute for Research within the Atmosphere, or CIRA, has released a loop of satellite imagery showing smoke from the fireplace wrapping around a low-pressure system over the Midwest.
The FOX Prediction Center tracks northerly winds pushing smoke down into the Upper Midwest. This is identical system answerable for the constant rains and storms in parts of the Great Lakes and the Northeast.
On Tuesday, GOES East showed smoke swirling around a low pressure system, avoiding the Great Lakes but dropping smoke into the Dakota, Nebraska, northwestern Minnesota, Iowa and as far south as parts of Kansas and Missouri.
By Wednesday morning, parts of Minnesota, including Minneapolis-St. Paul and central and northern Wisconsin experienced “unhealthy for vulnerable groups” or “unhealthy” air quality.
Meanwhile, other areas within the Upper Midwest fall under the Yellow or Moderate Air Quality Index.
![As smoke from the Canadian wildfires spread to the Upper Midwest, parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota experienced it](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/air-map.png?w=1024)
![As the smoke continues to move south, air quality may drop as far south as Wisconsin and Illinois.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/06/Screen-Shot-2023-06-14-at-12.33.46-PM.png?w=1024)
Smoke will proceed to maneuver south from Canada, with deteriorating air quality visible as far south as Wisconsin and Illinois on Wednesday.
The Dakota and Minnesota will experience moderate to heavy fire smoke through Thursday morning.
Computer forecast models from the FOX Forecast Center suggest smoke from the fires could return to the Great Lakes and the Northeast by Friday.