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The sun looks impressive, it is terrible, it is red, even during a day. Siberian sky has a steel color.

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This is terrible. Russia is going to lose a pretty substantial chunk of its forests if there are no heavy rains soon. We've had very high levels of air pollution for the last few days here in Kazakhstan, with visibility levels of a few hundreds of meters. I mean, how many trees do you have to burn for the air to be so bad more than a thousand kilometers away?

Imagine we managed to be better than the fire and touch an international community faster, then its smoke will did, could such a level of attention change the situation and and push government(s) to use some kind of aviation to extinguish the fire?

The rain is the only hope...

Thanks for sharing. I am in NW Montana and saw the sun like this for the first time a few days ago, I'm not from here.

We have had an unseasonably wet summer thus far, which I understand from the ecologists around me here means there will be more dry brush when the dry season is fully in force, and the fires will likely become more pronounced than usual.

It's absolutely terrifying to know that this is going on, just across the pond. There are usually a lot more fires here, we've been lucky so far this year. (I myself am from Western NY, where we say "we'll gladly take the snow, if it means there are no wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, ...")

Frankly, I have never seen before such a sun during an entire day, and in now it lasts for a several weeks! It is very strange, especially when main news channels says almost nothing about the situation.

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