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In Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia we can see the expectation generated this morning by the sunrise on the Fuengirola breakwater, with a sky marked by haze, although, was it the smoke from the fires in Canada?
The truth is that the smoke from the fires in Canada has reached Spain after traveling thousands of kilometers in the upper layers of the atmosphere, although it only generates a slight reduction in visibility without affecting air quality.
Very intense fires, such as those that affect Canada, are capable of raising the smoke to high levels of the atmosphere and, in these layers, a current of air in height, the jet stream, is capable of moving that cloud thousands of kilometers .
Between Canada and Spain there are more than 5,000 kilometers, a distance that the particles from the Canadian fires have managed to complete.
For its part, haze is a meteorological phenomenon consisting of the presence in the atmosphere of very small particles of dust, ash, clay or sand in suspension. In this case, Saharan dust.
As an immediate effect and depending on its density, the haze produces a decrease in visibility to a greater or lesser extent and even the appearance of discomfort in the eyes, nose and throat.
