Wildfire Smoke in a Cyclone
More than 1,000 wildfires are burned across Canada from Quebec to the Yukon during Fall 2023. This forced the evacuation of the city of Yellowknife with a population of 20,000.
This satellite image shows wildlife smoke being entrained into a cyclone to the northeast of Yellowknife in the Canadian Northwest Territories on September 16, 2023.
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Images credit: Norman Kuring (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, retired)
This satellite image shows wildlife smoke being entrained into a cyclone to the northeast of Yellowknife in the Canadian Northwest Territories on September 16, 2023.
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Images credit: Norman Kuring (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, retired)