{"id":1786169,"date":"2018-08-21T11:12:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786169"},"modified":"2018-08-21T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T15:12:37","slug":"smoke-from-the-british-columbia-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/smoke-from-the-british-columbia-wildfires\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoke from the British Columbia Wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NASA Earth Observatory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Smoke from the British Columbia wildfires (previously<\/a>) has blanketed the Canadian prairie provinces and can be seen from space, CBC News reports<\/a>. The above image was taken by the Suomi NPP<\/a> satellite on 15 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smoke from the British Columbia wildfires (previously) has blanketed the Canadian prairie provinces and can be seen from space, CBC News reports. The above image was taken by the Suomi NPP satellite on 15 August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[131,177,487],"class_list":["post-1786169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-weather-and-climate","tag-canada","tag-satellite-imagery","tag-wildfires","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1789281,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/09\/more-on-the-western-u-s-wildfires\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786169,"position":0},"title":"More on the Western U.S. Wildfires","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 September 2020","format":"link","excerpt":"NASA Earth Observatory has had several stories on the western U.S. wildfires, gathered here. 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