Australian bushfire smoke affecting South America, UN reports

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/07/australian-bushfire-smoke-drifts-to-south-america-un-reports?CMP=soc_567&fbclid=IwAR16mC9cRrxBRW7_59HyJN0vEBOAdSUnZcZgsgg9dArt5cnJcSVT6KdjbYk

Reuters
Tue 7 Jan 2020 13.14 EST
Last modified on Tue 7 Jan 2020 13.32 EST

Smoke from bushfires in Australia has drifted across the Pacific and affected cities in South America, and may have reached the Antarctic, the UN World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday.

Smoke from the fires had already turned skies bright orange over Auckland in New Zealand.

But skies as far away as over central Chile have now gone grey because of the smoke and the WMO cited reports that the sunset in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires, had turned red.

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