Smoke from the Canadian fires has traveled more than 7,000 kilometers of distance and arrived in Spain this Monday. This phenomenon has already been observed this Sunday in areas of the Aragonese Pyrenees such as Benasque.
The spokesman for eltiempo.es, Roberto Granda, has detailed that The areas most affected by this murky environment will be those in the northeast of the country.throughout the Ebro Valley and Catalonia. Thus, Navarre, Aragon and Catalonia, as well as the north of the Valencian Community and the Balearic Islands, will be the areas where the presence of smoke will be most noticeable.
Granda has stressed that No relevant consequences are expected on the surface or that may harm the population, since It is not affecting air quality from Spain.
Thus, the spokesman for the meteorological portal explained that the smoke was generated in the More than 428 forest fires that have been declared during August in the region of the British Columbia (Canada), according to the local Forest Fire Service.
The Aemet delegate in Aragon, Rafael Requenaexplained that the phenomenon has reached Spain driven by the atmospheric circulationthe general movement of air in the Earth’s atmosphere. This distributes the heat and the humidity around the planet and can also impact the dispersion of pollutants such as smoke of forest fires.
According to Granda, the atmospheric circulation in middle and upper layers has favoured this smoke reaching the country. Specifically, he has specified that it reaches the middle classes, clouding the skies as a haze would do.
“Son aerosols caused by the fires in Canada,” Aemet has assured through the social network X, where they have responded to the doubts of many users.