Satellite Captures Smoke in Western Canada.

NOAA satellites captured this impressive photo of dense smoke across western and central Canada yesterday.

Canada_A2014188_1905_1km — Terra/Modis Satellite Image taken at 19:05 UTC on July 7. (Courtesy: NASA)

The red dots you see on the image are active wildfires in northwest Canada. Northwesterly winds helped to carry the areas of smoke south and east across Canada.

Currently, the heaviest smoke is in the Northwest Territories, but the main area of smoke stretches through the central provinces of Canada and even into portions of North Dakota and Montana.