August 18, 2018 - 12:54 PM
The smoke from this years' wildfires is so thick in the interior it can be seen from space.
But here on Earth, some social media users have been posting their photos to show just how poor visibility is.
Yesterday, Kamloops Airport tweeted that visibility was at 2 k.m. Here's a tweet from Prairie Storm Chasers on a flight from Edmonton to Vancouver. A pyrocumulous is a cloud formed as a result of a fire or volcano. It is also called a flammagenitus.
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