Courtesy of National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, NOAA Ash cloud from Soufriere Hills volcano in visible light. Courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ash cloud from Soufriere Hills volcano with water vapor data removed. Dust depicted as light brown haze. Courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Dust depicted in white areas. Courtesy of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA-15 image of large fires in the Northwest Territories of Canada.
Fires burn amid the bordering countries of Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay.
The unusually hot and dry summer of 1999 caused wildfire outbreaks near Saint Petersburg, around Moscow, and throughout eastern Russia. The red area surrounding Saint Petersburg is due to heat from the city. The real fires have telltale smoke plumes trailing to the south.