OSLO: Smoke from Canadian wildfires was detected thousands of kilometers away in Norway, the Scandinavian country, this week NILU Institute for Climate and Environmental Research said Friday.
“Very weak” concentrations of smoke particles have been detected since Monday, particularly at the Birkenes observatory in southern norwayresearcher Nikolaos Evangeliou he told AFP.
Measurements have varied according to the intensity of the fires, the direction of the wind and the precipitation.
“We don’t see any serious spikes or big increases… so we don’t see any environmental problems (in Norway) or any serious health hazards,” he added.
The largest and most powerful wildfires ever have burned some 3.8 million hectares of Canadian forests and displaced tens of thousands of residents in recent weeks.
The scale is unprecedented, with some 2,300 fires recorded so far this year.
Southern Norway, like much of northern Europe, has also experienced an unusually dry spring and early summer so far.
In southern Norway, no rain has fallen for 16 days and none is forecast for the next few days.
A three-week ban on open fires was introduced on Thursday.