Smoke from the megafires that ravaged Canada darkened Greenland’s skies earlier this week, residents in the western part of the giant Arctic island said.
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“It was a kind of apocalyptic atmosphere, with a cloud of smoke and a smell of smoke,” researcher Caroline Bouchard, who has lived in Nuuk, the capital of the autonomous Danish territory, for seven years, told AFP on Wednesday.
“On Monday it seemed like the sun hadn’t risen, but the next day it was gone,” she added.
Images posted on social media show low skies covered in thick fog.
Police were contacted by concerned residents and estimated on Facebook that “the wind had sent smoke from North American wildfires over Greenland.”
According to Ms. Bouchard, this is the first time smoke has spread in this way in Greenland since the Canadian wildfires began.
“In the summer, we could see a beautiful red sunset because of the smoke particles, but there was no smell or black clouds,” she said.
In June, low concentrations of smoke particles from fires in Canada were measured in southern Norway.
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