Area of land burnt in Australia and area of smoke coverage shown as equivalent area over Europe [OC]

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Mauer13 on January 3rd, 2020 at 17:19 UTC »

You seem to know a thing or two. Are wildlife dying or just being displaced. I don’t know why but it seems like animals might sense a fire coming or are the fires just too fast?

BigRatJoe on January 3rd, 2020 at 17:31 UTC »

I've looked outside my house and I can only see like 25m away but that was weeks ago and it's gotten worse.

http://imgur.com/gallery/ojH5THu. Photo outside my house in Western Sydney I took a couple weeks ago. (I'm on holidays now so I'm not there but I hope everything is okay in the rural parts)

admin-eat-my-shit13 on January 3rd, 2020 at 17:46 UTC »

with this amount of smoke, shouldn't there be ash rain as somewhere else on the world? I mean Europe gets red rain from Sahara desert sand.