Where is the Fire?
Smoke from forest fires in Quebec in July 2002 reached Boston in just a few days. The sky turned yellow. Smoke from fires in the Yucatan travels in our atmosphere in Texas and beyond. Fungi from the Yucatan travel on smoke particles through our atmosphere.
- Two different satellite images of smoke from forest fires (a TOMS image, above left, and a MODIS image, above right) show both the intensity (red is the area of densest smoke) and spread of smoke from Canadian fires to New England and the Mid-Atlantic States.