Orange
It’s 2pm in Auckland yet it feels like the sun is about to set. An eerie, dark orange tinted sky filled with smoke from the #Australia bushfires over 2000km away.
Climate Change Knows No Borders pic.twitter.com/HtoTLLXQOX— Dr Michelle Dickinson (@medickinson) January 5, 2020
#Smoke update for #Auckland. The main plume is now moving over the city & into tonight, also parts of Northland, Coromandel Peninsula & Waikato.
Smoke in NZ's upper North Island peaks across the rest of Sunday & overnight tonight.
4:40pm NZDT Jan 5 pic.twitter.com/QlPbOewOf2
— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) January 5, 2020
Skies over Auckland this afternoon… pic.twitter.com/sN5Pjqs4NM
— Damian Light (@damianlight) January 5, 2020
The smoke haze from Australia has been dragged across the Tasman, turning Auckland’s skies orange. pic.twitter.com/LzL6GE2QIj
— Georgia Clark (@GeorgiaBClark) January 5, 2020
Canberra is currently the city with the world’s worst air pollution, all because of these fires.