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Smoke from the deadly wildfires raging across the West Coast reached Europe last week and is expected to travel over 5,000 miles again this weekend, according to data released Wednesday by the European Commission’s atmosphere monitoring service, a show of this historic fire season’s continued severity. ... [+]AFP via Getty ImagesThe Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service predicts that smoke will start to cross the Atlantic Ocean again, reaching Northern Europe later this week.
The fire activity has been tens to hundreds of times more intense than the U.S.’s average from 2003 to 2019, CAMS reported, with Senior Scientist Mark Parrington adding: “The scale and magnitude of these fires are at a level much higher than in any of the 18 years that our monitoring data covers.”
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