The New South Wales Rural Fire Service in Australia sent this interesting tweet today — an animated wildfire smoke forecast. I have not seen this distributed to the public in the United States.

After you start the video and click on the arrows at the bottom-right, it will fill the screen and you can almost read the names of the geographic features. So obviously it needs a better background map (and maybe fewer wind direction arrows that clutter the image) but it has potential for keeping the public informed about wildfire smoke.

Smoke from #PilligaFire likely to drift across #Gunnendah #Narrabri and #WeeWaa with the wind change. #NSWRFS pic.twitter.com/mOtAkcePko

— NSW RFS (@NSWRFS) January 14, 2016