Smoke from fires in the Pacific Northwest gets caught in a weather pattern and pulled all the way across the US and over to Europe. Hurricanes form off the coast of Africa and travel across the Atlantic to make landfall in the United States. Dust from the Sahara is blown into the Gulf of Mexico.
In this cool video created by NASA you visualize how dust, sand and other particulate matter moves with the wind from one continent to another. The video includes footage of 2017 hurricanes including Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Ophelia. (You too can create cool looking videos like this if you had the supercomputing resources like NASA.)
Brief story accompanying the video on NPR.
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The Hurricane Season, as Shown by Salt, Smoke, and Dust
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by captain normal on Friday November 17 2017, @05:41AM (3 children)
I'd really like to see the other hemisphere to see how stuff from the orient and South Asia moves across the Pacific.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday November 17 2017, @06:30AM (2 children)
You can see how much ganja Northern California, Oregon, and Washington are smoking.
(Score: 2) by Some call me Tim on Friday November 17 2017, @09:09AM (1 child)
Just wait until California goes full legal in 2018! Nevada and Arizona will be stoned to the gills 24/7!
Questioning science is how you do science!
(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Friday November 17 2017, @04:21PM
Based on the forest fires in the video, Europe will be getting a high from all the smoke emanating from CA.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Friday November 17 2017, @04:48PM
In the video there was a large "backdraft" through the Pacific Northwest to the Pacific Ocean. I checked the date, and yes, it was September. Living in suburban Portland I distinctly remember those days: Labor Day was supposed to be over 100F but the smoke kept the temperature lower about 5~10 degrees and the world had a much different hue at noon (more like a sunset).
(Score: 1) by Muad'Dave on Friday November 17 2017, @05:48PM (1 child)
What is puffing up synchronously from the southeastern US? It happens a bit at the start, and a lot around 1:12 in [youtube.com].
Power plants, maybe?
(Score: 1) by koick on Saturday November 18 2017, @03:08AM
Folks on Reddit said the daily spurts of smoke in the southeastern USA are mostly controlled burns. Some said from prescribed burns of underbrush to prevent larger fires and others said of (sugar cane?) fields as part of the
harvest cycle.