NA SA: Smoke from Australia's fires will take a walk around the world

NASA scientists have analyzed smoke and aerosols coming from a fire in Australia through satellite data. They noted that smoke by the end of December fires travelled “half of the planet” and affected air quality in other countries, CNN reports.

Until January 8, 2020, smoke had overcome half the planet. He arrived in South America and caused the misty sky and the multicolored sun sunset over this area”, NASA said, adding that the smoke was causing a serious “air quality problems” in New Zealand.

Because of extreme weather, high air temperatures and low humidity, there have been an extremely high number of incidents caused by severe storms and fire-generating smoke,” said NASA.

Pyroculumanimbuses, so - called fire clouds, smoke 16 miles high in the stratosphere, which can travel thousands of miles away from its source and affect the atmosphere conditions worldwide.

Nicolas Bellowin, a climatelogist at Reading University, told CNN that it is not so unusual for fire particles to travel around the world, but that the concentration of those generated in Australian fires is of such a nature that can affect air quality elsewhere in the world, including in Chile and Argentina.

Australia has been involved in fires for months. So far, at least 28 people have died and more than 3,000 houses have been destroyed or damaged in New South Wales alone.