Satellite Photos Show Smoke From West Coast Wildfires Stretching 2,000 Miles Across The U.S.

Sacramento Bee-

A satellite photo taken Saturday shows a pall of smoke from wildfires ravaging the West Coast stretching across the United States as far as Michigan.

That’s a distance of nearly 2,000 miles.

The National Weather Service weather prediction center posted the photo Saturday to Twitter. It shows dense smoke covering the Pacific Northwest and California, with a lighter band of smoke in the upper atmosphere stretching across the Midwest.

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Here is a visible satellite image valid at 2pm PDT showing the vast extent of the wildfire smoke. The area in the orange contour is smoke in the mid-upper levels of the atmosphere that has reached as far east as Michigan! The red contour is the dense smoke near the West Coast. pic.twitter.com/J0OEFVA4oD
— NWS Weather Prediction Center (@NWSWPC) September 13, 2020