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A smoky sunset over the District, June 9, 2015

(Richard Barnhill via Flickr)

A thick haze of smoke drifted over the D.C. region late Tuesday afternoon, driven south from Canada’s burgeoning wildfires by the high-level winds of the jet stream.

There are six large wildfires burning in Alberta and British Columbia, according to the Remote Sensing Applications Center in Salt Lake City. These fires are pumping copious amounts of smoke high into the atmosphere, which is then hitching a ride on the global jet stream to paint our skies pink and orange.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/06/10/photos-the-sun-glows-red-through-the-veil-of-canadian-wildfire-smoke/

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