The big smoke

False-colour Aqua imagery collage of the fire zone stretching from James Bay to the Atikonak region of southwestern Labrador, mid-day on Thursday. (Click to enlarge.)

By way of reference, Ile René-Levasseur, the distinctive circular feature in the middle of the Manicouagan crater at the bottom-centre-right of the image, is about 72 km across.

Yikes.