This is a screen grab from the Western Canada BlueSky Smoke Forecasting System

With all the problems caused by the extremely dense wildfire smoke in Russia, it is timely that the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia have unveiled a new system for predicting where and in what concentrations wildfire smoke will occur.

When you visit the BC Air Quality web site an animation will begin. If there are no major fires burning, it may be difficult to see anything happening, but if you increase the Play Speed, it will become more obvious. The software is called Western Canada BlueSky Smoke Forecasting System and cost $95,000 to develop.

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